If Books Could Kill

Sam Harris's "The End of Faith"

Montag, 4. November 2024 · 1 h 10

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Peter and Michael discuss the book that launched the phenomenon of New Atheism and asked the question: What if we hated Muslims, but in a secular way?
Where to find us:
• Peter's other podcast, 5-4 (fivefourpod.com)
• Mike's other podcast, Maintenance Phase (maintenancephase.com)
Sources:
• Views of Violence (news.gallup.com/poll/157067/views-violence.aspx)
• Carnival Booth: An Algorithm for Defeating the Computer-Assisted Passenger Screening System (groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/student…)
• The same motive for anti-US 'terrorism' is cited over and over (theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/24/bost…)
• Does intuitive mindset influence belief in God? (cambridge.org/core/journals/judgment-and-decis…)
• Terrorism science: 5 insights into jihad in Europe (nature.com/articles/528020a)
• Analytic cognitive style predicts religious and paranormal belief (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22481051)
• What Is "Islamophobia"? (samharris.org/blog/what-is-islamophobia)
• Essays In Defense of Profiling (samharris.org/blog/in-defense-of-profiling)
• To Profile or Not to Profile (samharris.org/blog/to-profile-or-not-to-profile)
• Chapter 2 The Making of Jihadist Social Actors in Europe in (brill.com/display/book/9789004525658/BP000014.…)
• Who are the new jihadis? (theguardian.com/news/2017/apr/13/who-are-the-n…)
• Disbelief - Prometheus Books (prometheusbooks.com/9781633889248/disbelief)
• God and the Ivory Tower (foreignpolicy.com/2012/08/06/god-and-the-ivory…)
• Religion’s evolutionary landscape: Counterintuition, commitment, compassion, communion (www2.psych.ubc.ca/~ara/Manuscripts/AtranNorenz…)
• The Evolution of Religion: How Cognitive By-Products, Adaptive Learning Heuristics, Ritual Displays, and Group Competition Generate (www2.psych.ubc.ca/~henrich/pdfs/BIOT_a_00018.pdf)
• Talking to the Enemy (harpercollins.com/products/talking-to-the-enem…)
Thanks to Mindseye (mindseye-music.bandcamp.com/track/the-place-be…) for our theme song!
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