29 - Jay Shapiro - Discarding Old Gods and Inventing New

2:46 Jay’s film Islam and the Future of Tolerance 7:03 Why Jay became a documentary filmmaker 10:05 Why Jay chose to film Sam Harris & Maajid’s Nawaz’s book, Islam and the Future of Tolerance 19:01 Three different mindsets: political, philosophical, psychological 28:00 How responsible is a writer for the way in which he or she is interpreted? 38:24 Different types of Muslims 45:19 Reform versus apostasy 49:16 The problem with Islam 54:19 Who is Maajid Nawaz most skilled at reaching? 56:53 What Jay means by religion and religious ideas and why he is against them. 1:02:23 Jordan Peterson’s definition of religion 1:07:00 Finding meaning without religion 1:11:44 Finding ethics without religion 1:25:22 Creating new gods 1:33:44 Philosophy and modern life You can find out more about the documentary film Islam and the Future of Tolerance here: http://www.islamandthefutureoftolerance.com/ It is based on Sam Harris & Maajid Nawaz’s book of the same name, published in 2015. For Jay’s film Opposite Field see: http://www.opposite-field.com/ and for his film All Rise see: http://www.docnyc.net/film/all-rise/ You can follow Jay on Twitter @jay_shapiro Other references: Mike Nayna, documentary filmmaker: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzk08fzh5c_BhjQa1w35wtA Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (2004) and The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values (2010) Maajid Nawaz, Radical: My Journey out of Islamist Extremism (2012) The Quilliam Foundation: https://www.quilliaminternational.com/ The Intelligence Squared debate on the topic Is Islam a Religion of Peace?, featuring Maajid Nawaz, Zeba Khan, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Douglas Murray: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUGmv5TGaTc Ali Rizvi’s The Atheist Muslim: A Journey from Religion to Reason (2016) David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World (2011) Sean Carroll’s Moving Naturalism Forward conference: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/naturalism2012/ Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life (2004) Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994) Laurence Krauss, A Universe from Nothing (2012) Oliver Morton, Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet (2007) Matt Ridley, The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (2010 Noah Yuval Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011) and Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (2016) Other people mentioned: Coleman Hughes, Jordan B. Peterson, Haras Rafiq