I can invent new definitions for words such that my hypotheses look true too.
He denies the overwhelmingly held definition of God, claims his definition is the obvious definition, then claims it's impossible to not believe in his definition. Unfortunately, that's not the God atheists are denying. He's having an argument with himself, not Sam Harris - who, incidentally, he seems to totally misunderstand.
Hedges says:
"God is the name we give to our belief that life has meaning, one that transcends the world’s chaos, randomness and cruelty. To argue about whether God exists or does not exist is futile." Well, duh, if that is what God is. But that's not what God is to most people who believe in God.
I guess he's never been
touched by his noodly appendage. Now THAT'S a God we can all get behind!