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Making Sense with Sam Harris

#313 — Apocalypse

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Waking Up with Sam Harris

Samharris, Currentevents, Politics, Ethics, Religion, Neuroscience, Science, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.629.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Sam Harris speaks with Bart D. Ehrman about the prophecies contained in the book of Revelation. They discuss his latest book, "Armageddon," and widespread Christian beliefs about the coming end of the world.

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Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast. This is Sam Harris.

0:50.4

Okay, just a brief housekeeping here. I just received an update from a former podcast guest.

0:58.5

Meg Smaker was my guest for episode 300, where we discussed her cancellation. She's a

1:05.8

documentarian who made a film, originally titled, G-Hod Rehab. It's now the unredacted.

1:13.8

And if you recall, her film was accepted to the Sundance Film Festival,

1:17.7

and others, and that she was promptly canceled for having the temerity to make a film on this topic

1:24.1

while being of the wrong racial and religious identity. And anyone who heard that episode

1:30.4

understands that she was absolutely the wrong target of this kind of activist hysteria,

1:37.1

having lived for years in Yemen and having produced an entirely compassionate and balanced film.

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Anyway, the response to that podcast was overwhelmingly positive, and she had a GoFundMe campaign

1:53.2

to help her release the film, which I think only had a few thousand dollars in it before we recorded

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our interview. And after you guys heard from Meg very quickly, she raised over three quarters

2:04.4

of a million dollars. So, Neelissa said that was a tremendous help to her. And she's now releasing

2:11.8

the film herself, and their upcoming theater dates for the month of April in New York,

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Washington, Chicago, Denver, Austin, San Antonio, Los Angeles, and perhaps other cities are being

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