Bart Ehrman and Sam Harris.interview on Christianity.

Sam Harris, a  wannabe-philosopher  pseudo-scientist demonstrates his art of mixing "leading questions" with "soft questions" in his interview with professor Bart Herman, who is in all fairness a prominent scholar of Christianity.    In the interview Harris tries to employ Ehrman's genius to propagate his own bizarre atheism with old-school Islamophobic bigotry. This is something like what he tried unsuccessfully with professor  Noam Chomsky, however a great improvement over his tortured debates with Jordan B Peterson, the right-wing crusader who is a darling of Fox, and the words of Tabatha Southey: “the stupid man’s smart person”. Southey writes: “Peterson’s secret sauce is to provide an academic veneer to a lot of old-school rightwing cant, including the notion that most academia is corrupt and evil, and banal self-help patter.” 

Knowing Harris' penchant for self-promotion, professor Chomsky,  was  not interested in a debate, because such a debate would have implied that Harris understood Chomsky’s argument in the first place. Harris, who pretended,  has been offended over  some comments Chomsky had made referring to Christopher Hitchens as a “religious fanatic who worships the state,” reached out to him and asked for a debate.

So I just wanted to clarify that, although I think we might disagree substantially about a few things, I am far more interested in exploring these disagreements, and clarifying any misunderstandings, than in having a conventional debate. 

If you’d rather not have a public conversation with me, that’s fine. I can only say that we have many, many readers in common who would like to see us attempt to find some common ground. The fact that you have called me “a religious fanatic” who “worships the religion of the state” makes me think that there are a few misconceptions I could clear up. And many readers insist that I am similarly off-the-mark where your views are concerned.

Chomsky was more smart to let himself be abused for Harris' self promotion. He responded: 

Perhaps I have some misconceptions about you.  Most of what I’ve read of yours is material that has been sent to me about my alleged views, which is completely false.  I don’t see any point in a public debate about misreadings.  If there are things you’d like to explore privately, fine.  But with sources.