Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason:

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Anybody watching this?

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Saturday, 1 July 2006 19:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Bill Moyers and Salman Rushdie transcript.

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Saturday, 1 July 2006 19:01 (eighteen years ago) link

BILL MOYERS: So do you think the rise of conservative fundamentalist religion is in response to the failure of politics?

SALMAN RUSHDIE: I think it is always-- when people retreat, I think, the political area into a theological area it is, I think, a kind of retreat. I think it's people saying that the modern world and the way of doing things is not to our taste, and we want to look instead for, you know, eternal verities-- truths that we can build a house on.

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Saturday, 1 July 2006 19:05 (eighteen years ago) link

SALMAN RUSHDIE: There are people, as I say, you have to defeat, you know. But I'm talking about the enormous culture of which they're [extremist Islamists] the pimple on the nose of it. And I think in the end the way in which radical Islam will be defeated is when ordinary Islam, you know, when the regular world of the Muslim faith comes to reject the idea that they will be represented by, defined by that kind of extremist behavior.

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Saturday, 1 July 2006 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Too bad Salman Rushdie is a mediocre author who got a
tremendous carreer handed to him on a silver platter, by
those jihadist clerics. Sorry, Bill, better luck next time.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Saturday, 1 July 2006 21:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Goblinatrix, let us know how it feels next time you can't walk to the 7-Eleven because of a fatwa, 'k?

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 2 July 2006 10:01 (eighteen years ago) link

who got a
tremendous carreer handed to him on a silver platter

yeah after winning the Booker Prize in 1980 for Midnight's Children. er wait maybe that was the other Salman Rushdie...

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 2 July 2006 10:46 (eighteen years ago) link

i didn't see the rushdie one but the next one was kind of interesting. i though the atheist professor dude seemed a bit out of touch with the way things are going in america these days.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Sunday, 2 July 2006 10:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Compare and contrast:

Too bad Salman Rushdie is a mediocre author

[Sufjan] Stevens is a hero for
demonstrating to his hip audience that prog is much more
than inflatable animals and mad caped organ players.

― Toad Roundgrin (noodle vague), Sunday, 2 July 2006 11:02 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

"one of the things you face when you confront your own death is not the ... the futility of your life... but the sweetness of it all." - Richard Rodriguez.

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Saturday, 22 July 2006 15:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Also, can somebody plz educate me on Richard Rodriguez? I haven't been aware of him until recently, and it seems in the past month he's practically everywhere…

wiki here.

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Saturday, 22 July 2006 15:57 (eighteen years ago) link

he's nothing new if you watch MacNeil-Lehrer, but maybe he's in the news because the other essayist is retiring in some fashion (i think)?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 22 July 2006 16:02 (eighteen years ago) link

I enjoyed the first ep, haven't seen the next two yet.

― kingfish cyclopean ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 22 July 2006 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link

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