AS93: Enhanced Interrogation
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
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🗓️ 15 December 2014
⏱️ 48 minutes
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In this episode I discuss the Senate Report on Torture that came out last week. As you've no doubt heard by now, it's pretty horrifying. But does Sam Harris condone such behavior? According to CJ Werleman, yes. According to Sam Harris, likely not. Here are some links I discussed. http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/john-yoo-torture-report-dustbin-article-1.2039758 http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/12/11/370055472/dick-cheney-on-senate-torture-investigation-the-report-is-full-of-crap http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/09/senate-torture-report-details_n_6295396.html
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hello and welcome to episode number 93 of |
| 0:34.8 | atheistically speaking I'm as always your host Thomas Smith. All right well it has |
| 0:40.6 | been pointed out to me by Bang's Noddy Bits, aka Michael, that today, when you're |
| 0:47.6 | hearing this Monday, I mean if you're hearing this on Monday is the third anniversary of the death of the great |
| 0:55.2 | Christopher Hitchins. So I didn't know that. We actually just talked about it pretty recently |
| 1:02.1 | but I didn't realize it was already coming up. |
| 1:04.4 | Three years, wow, December 15th, 2011. |
| 1:08.1 | And, you know, of course, Hitchins was always controversial, and I know there are a lot of people who disagree |
| 1:14.3 | with them on some things and you know I didn't always agree with them. |
| 1:17.5 | But I, one thing I'm 100% sure of is that his death was a really big loss to everybody not even just |
| 1:24.3 | atheists but just to everybody I really I've said it before but I just loved reading |
| 1:29.7 | his columns were just was just absolute pleasure I mean, they were rarely even atheism related. Well, I don't know about rarely, but oftentimes it was purely foreign policy or you know that sort of thing and it just he knew so much and had such a |
| 1:44.8 | nuanced view I just I really miss him I remember being pretty sad pretty |
| 1:50.8 | depressed for a while when he died. |
| 1:53.7 | And so I thought I'd play a little tiny tribute that Michael sent me. |
| 1:58.8 | This is courtesy of Mr. Bangs Noddy Bits, as we all know his weird Twitter name, or sorry, his weird Facebook name. |
| 2:09.8 | And yeah, so this also has some Sam Harrison, but it's sort of a sort of prefaces it. |
| 2:15.4 | So, thought I'd stick it in there. |
| 2:17.0 | The point I was making there, but it does that point of not knowing what happens after death is what worries me about this conversation. |
| 2:25.5 | I've been very worried about this that all of you have given up a perfectly serviceable Tuesday evening |
| 2:31.5 | only to hear the four of us tell you every which way that we have no idea what happens after that. And I expressed my spirit of my wife and she was actually able to put me at ease. |
| 2:50.0 | I'm worried obviously about boring all of you and she said nothing |
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