Jeff Sharlet and Rev. Sekou Duke It Out

Okay, actually it’s not so much a brass-knuckles match-to-the-death as it is a friendly conversation about the not-so-friendly religious right. And at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, no less. These videos, thanks to Ty Whitfield and Damal Edmond at the Society, capture some of the highlights of the October 29 Killing the Buddha/Forum for Ethics and Justice event, “Whose God?: The Religious Right, Politics, and Democracy.”

Here they are, our very own Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family, and Buddha-killer Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou: