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razib

10:37:17 am on May 27, 2008 | # | |
Tags: books, international relations

i’m reading the post-american world. i will amend my earlier complaint about fareed talking about how chinese and indians don’t believe in god; he cites a 2007 pew survey which shows that the majority of chinese & japanese don’t believe that one needs to believe in god to be moral, and that the majority of americans do. that’s his one quantitative point. he has some later qualitiative arguments and points which i think are more subtle than come across in his exposition in interviews, even if they need further teasing apart than is possible in a book of this nature….
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aziz 10:54 am on May 27, 2008 | #

hey Razib I want to borrow it from you when you’re done.
razib 10:56 am on May 27, 2008 | #

shore. i’ll send it bookrate in a week.
aziz 2:24 pm on May 27, 2008 | #

thanks! ping me on gchat if you need my address.

It occurs to me that we could probably implement a pretty cool book exchange here on Talk Islam if we wanted to. Wonder how the best way to organize that would be…