Dr. Sam Harris
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first heard Jun 2024
last heard 23 Aug
Dr. Sam Harris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That if you were a Christian
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You know, somewhere around the fourteenth century, the fifteenth century.
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You know, it was it was um expected.
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that uh you could be killed for thought crimes but you know by you know by the religious orthodoxy that that governed everything.
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Right now we we you know we have
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fought a
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a very difficult battle against that kind of um
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theocracy in the West, and we have a lot to show for it.
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I mean, that's just uh that i uh uh in a Christian context, you know, b burning people alive for
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uh being gay or being a witch as though witches existed.
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um or being a blasphemer, etcetera.
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That just doesn't happen anymore.
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I mean it you know, it i you know it it it's it's it's capable of happening in in a few contexts in sub Saharan Africa among Christians, but
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Generally speaking
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that that problem is behind us.
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Uh that we we can't say that uh you know under Islam, right?
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I mean Islam is i Islam has not made the same kind of progress we have.
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In in um
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modernizing and that's because it it it simply hasn't had to.
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It's been sheltered from modernity for
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