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