Sam Harris: "There Is A Deeper Explanation Here"

Journeys of Faith with Paula Faris

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🗓️ 5 December 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Philosopher Sam Harris has produced some of the most prominent writings on atheism in recent years. He spoke with Paula about how his views have evolved, as well as the benefits and drawbacks of organized religion. --- Paula Faris is an Emmy Award-winning anchor and senior national correspondent at ABC News. Previously, she was the co-anchor of "Good Morning America" on the weekends and ABC's "The View." Support this podcast with a review --------> http://bit.ly/2DChGho "Journeys of Faith with Paula Faris" is produced by ABC Radio. More information: http://www.abcnewspodcasts.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:25.0	Hey there, it's Paula Ferris and this is journeys of faith where we talk to people about how faith guided them through the best and worst of times.
0:35.9	My guest this week is Sam Harris.
0:38.3	He's a philosopher, he's got a PhD in neuroscience, and he's an atheist.
0:45.0	That's right, Sam's journey is all about the absence of faith.
0:50.0	The reason why atheists get impatient is because we are living in a world where people are dying essentially over rival interpretations of literature.
1:04.0	Now as you may know I'm a Christian in my faith is incredibly important to me.
1:08.4	But one of the things I'm trying to do with this podcast is to challenge myself and hopefully you.
1:13.2	Let's learn from the journeys and experiences of others and
1:17.2	Sam has had quite the journey.
1:19.2	I took psychedelic drugs.
1:21.2	We know, probably starting when I was 18. The first one was
1:24.5	MDMA that really had a profound effect on me. On this episode, Sam Harris talks
1:30.2	secularism and you guessed it
1:32.9	psychedelics. So a lot of people are going to be surprised when they learn
1:40.0	that I'm having one of the preeminentinent atheists on this podcast. It is a faith
1:44.2	podcast but it's a podcast on our personal faith journeys and there are no two
1:51.2	journeys that are alike. So Sam Harris, thank you for appearing on the
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