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> [“Despite two millennia of Christian apologetics, the fact is that belief in a dying and rising messiah simply did not exist in Judaism. In the entirety of the Hebrew Bible there is not a single passage of scripture or prophecy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reza-aslan/despite-two-millennia-of-christian-apologetics-the-fact-is-that/)

[Reza Aslan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reza-aslan/)

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> [There were dozens of people who walked through the Holy Land claiming to be the Messiah, curing the sick, exorcising demons, challenging Rome, gathering followers. In a way, there's nothing unique about what Jesus did. In fact, many of these…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reza-aslan/there-were-dozens-of-people-who-walked-through-the-holy-land-claiming/)

[Reza Aslan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reza-aslan/)

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## More by Reza Aslan

> [“Despite two millennia of Christian apologetics, the fact is that belief in a dying and rising messiah simply did not exist in Judaism. In…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reza-aslan/despite-two-millennia-of-christian-apologetics-the-fact-is-that/)

[Reza Aslan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reza-aslan/)

> [Should I act violently in defense of my religion, absolutely.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reza-aslan/should-i-act-violently-in-defense-of-my-religion-absolutely/)

[Reza Aslan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reza-aslan/)

> [Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reza-aslan/religion-doesn-t-make-people-bigots-people-are-bigots-and-they-use/)

[Reza Aslan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reza-aslan/)

> [“Scattered across the Roman Empire, it was only natural for the gospel writers to distance themselves from the Jewish independence movement by erasing, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reza-aslan/scattered-across-the-roman-empire-it-was-only-natural-for-the-gospel/)

[Reza Aslan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reza-aslan/)

> [“There is a term for this phenomenon—politicomorphism, or “the divinization of earthly politics”—and it is, to this day, one of the central features of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reza-aslan/there-is-a-term-for-this-phenomenon-politicomorphism-or-the/)

[Reza Aslan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reza-aslan/)

> [Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reza-aslan/obama-has-been-the-single-worst-president-in-modern-american-history/)

[Reza Aslan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reza-aslan/)

> [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 are huge…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reza-aslan/there-s-no-question-that-homophobia-is-rampant-among-the-world-s-1-5/)

[Reza Aslan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reza-aslan/)

> [Well, to be clear, I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reza-aslan/well-to-be-clear-i-am-a-scholar-of-religions-with-four-degrees/)

[Reza Aslan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reza-aslan/)

> [“There would be no more record of who was rich and who was poor. Everyone in this new and divinely inspired world order would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reza-aslan/there-would-be-no-more-record-of-who-was-rich-and-who-was-poor/)

[Reza Aslan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reza-aslan/)

> [My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reza-aslan/my-biography-of-jesus-is-probably-the-first-popular-biography-that/)

[Reza Aslan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reza-aslan/)

> [The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reza-aslan/the-islamic-reformation-is-already-here-we-are-all-living-in-it/)

[Reza Aslan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reza-aslan/)

> [“Pilate, as the histories reveal, was not one for trials. In his ten years as governor of Jerusalem, he had sent thousands upon thousands…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reza-aslan/pilate-as-the-histories-reveal-was-not-one-for-trials-in-his-ten/)

[Reza Aslan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reza-aslan/)

> [Is it possible that Jesus, unlike 98 percent of his fellow Jews, was literate and educated? Yes, it's possible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reza-aslan/is-it-possible-that-jesus-unlike-98-percent-of-his-fellow-jews-was/)

[Reza Aslan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reza-aslan/)

> [“The choice between James’s vision of a Jewish religion anchored in the Law of Moses and derived from a Jewish nationalist who fought against…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reza-aslan/the-choice-between-james-s-vision-of-a-jewish-religion-anchored-in/)

[Reza Aslan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reza-aslan/)

> [“Paul's portrayal of Jesus as Christ may sound familiar to contemporary Christians—it has since become the standard doctrine of the church—but it would have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reza-aslan/paul-s-portrayal-of-jesus-as-christ-may-sound-familiar-to/)

[Reza Aslan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reza-aslan/)

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