Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason . TV Schedule | PBS

Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason
Saturday, June 24, 5:00am
Salman Rushdie is interviewed. Topics include the Prophet Muhammad cartoons; and the conflict between free speech and individual opinion.

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BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Around the world, a lot of news is related to religious fundamentalism – absolute belief in the truth of one religion against the truths of everyone else. Recently, Bill Moyers interviewed 11 well-known writers on their views of how people of different faiths can coexist in peace. Those conversations begin on many PBS stations next Friday night, June 23, with the first of a series called Bill Moyers on Faith and Reason. Bill joins us from New York. Bill, welcome.

BILL MOYERS (Journalist and Host, “Bill Moyers on Faith and Reason”): Thank you, Bob.

ABERNETHY: Why do so many of your writers think that fundamentalism is so dangerous?

Photo of Moyers Mr. MOYERS: Because fundamentalism can lead to 9/11. It can lead to politics that settle nothing, in which all of us go for the other’s throats and we have holy wars, in effect, in the political square instead of compromise about how to solve our common problems. They think closed minds lead to closed societies, with everyone on the outside except those who are true believers.