The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it. — Reza Aslan Islam Copy Share Image
“Faith is a choice; anyone who says otherwise is trying to convert you.” — Reza Aslan Choice Copy Share Image
The Muslim community is completely fractured - it doesn't really exist anymore; the only place it does exist is online. — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Trump is a narcissistic sociopath; he's doing exactly what he said he would do. — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
The Revolutionary Guard controls almost everything in Iran, and this is hurting the people. — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Authoritarians tend to consolidate support by using fear, but more importantly by driving a wedge among the people that they want to… — Reza Aslan Authoritarians Copy Share Image
A cosmic war is like a ritual drama in which participants act out on Earth a battle they believe is actually taking… — Reza Aslan Battle Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is that when you write about religion like I do, you're writing about something that people take… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
The idea of literalism in the Bible is a very new phenomenon. In many ways, it's a product of the scientific revolution. — Reza Aslan Bible Copy Share Image
“They fully bloomed in the pages of the Bible and the Quran, where the Sumerian word ilu became transliterated as Elohim in… — Reza Aslan Bible Copy Share Image
There's no question that homophobia is rampant among the world's 1.5 billion Muslims - but that doesn't negate the fact that there… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Religion is never going to go away, and anyone who thinks it will doesn't understand what religion is. It is a language… — Reza Aslan Alive Copy Share Image
“Athena was originally worshiped as a flat piece of olive wood that was washed and bejeweled, wrapped in garments, and carefully tended… — Reza Aslan Athena Copy Share Image
For those who simply voted because Donald Trump was the Republican and you should vote for the Republican: it's baffling to me,… — Reza Aslan Christ Copy Share Image
What's happened in the United States is something that has already happened in Europe and that is that Islam is become 'otherised',… — Reza Aslan Anxiety Copy Share Image
The bad news is that Iran wants to talk about everything except their nuclear program. They want to talk about regional cooperation,… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Well I wouldn't want to tell Obama specifically what to do, but obviously he's already promised publicly and privately, both before and… — Reza Aslan Communication Copy Share Image
“So commonplace was crucifixion in the Roman Empire that Cicero referred to it as “that plague.” Among the citizenry, the word “cross”… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
The way you confront an organization like that is twofold. No. 1, you kill their militants. There is no room for discussion… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“The Prophet himself sometimes openly suppressed or negated older verses, considering them to have been replaced by newer ones. That is because… — Reza Aslan Koran Copy Share Image
“Thus began the long process of transforming Jesus from a revolutionary Jewish nationalist into a peaceful spiritual leader with no interest in… — Reza Aslan Judaism Copy Share Image
“Thus it is written that the messiah would suffer and rise again on the third day," Jesus instructs his disciples (Luke 24:44–46).… — Reza Aslan Bible Copy Share Image
“Scattered across the Roman Empire, it was only natural for the gospel writers to distance themselves from the Jewish independence movement by… — Reza Aslan Bible Copy Share Image
“Despite two millennia of Christian apologetics, the fact is that belief in a dying and rising messiah simply did not exist in… — Reza Aslan Death Copy Share Image
“Cognitive theorists have a term for what Eve just experienced. They call it her Hypersensitive Agency Detection Device, or HADD. This is… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“Religion is concerned not with genuine history, but with sacred history, which does not course through time like a river. Rather, sacred… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“In first-century Palestine, nearly every claimant to the mantle of the messiah neatly fit one of these messianic paradigms. Hezekiah the bandit… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“Today, Medina is simultaneously the archetype of Islamic democracy and the impetus for Islamic militancy. Islamic Modernists like the Egyptian writer and… — Reza Aslan Equal rights Copy Share Image
“But no religion is inherently violent or peaceful; people are violent or peaceful.” — Reza Aslan Peace Copy Share Image
I have not ever met Donald Trump, and I plan to go my entire life without ever actually having to breathe the… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“Paul may be an excellent source for those interested in the early formation of Christianity, but he is a poor guide for… — Reza Aslan Bias Copy Share Image
I think if you place Jesus firmly in the historical context... you can make very educated hypotheses and guesses about how he… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
There's nothing more distasteful than an academic having to, like, trot out his credentials. You really come off as a jerk when… — Reza Aslan Academic Copy Share Image
I have watched Muslims chant 'Death to America!' on the streets of Tehran, then privately beg me to help them get a… — Reza Aslan America Copy Share Image
The idea that education will lead to a lessening of bigotry is just factually incorrect. — Reza Aslan Bigotry Copy Share Image
Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology. — Reza Aslan Bigots Copy Share Image
