I'm interested in the origins of the religious experience, how the history of religion has evolved over the last umpteen thousand years,… — 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 times of economic distress, it's only natural for people - and Americans have done this for many years - to look… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“By the time these stories were written, six decades had passed since the crucifixion. In that time, the evangelists had heard just… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
When you're a brown Muslim from Iran talking about Jesus on TV, you need to keep your cool at all times, OK?… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
There is absolutely no difference between religion and politics at all in Jesus' time. In other words, every seemingly religious word that… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Nobody, absolutely nobody, straps a bomb on their body because they were recruited from the Internet. It takes an enormous amount of… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Even the Quran, which Sufis respect as the direct speech of God, lacks the capacity to shed light upon God’s essence. As… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Many of the prophets of Jesus's time were thought to just be mad men, just sort of crazy people who were claiming… — Reza Aslan 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 Judaism. In… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology. — Reza Aslan 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 erasing, as… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“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… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. — Reza Aslan 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 are huge… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Well, to be clear, I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“There would be no more record of who was rich and who was poor. Everyone in this new and divinely inspired world order would… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material. — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“Pilate, as the histories reveal, was not one for trials. In his ten years as governor of Jerusalem, he had sent thousands upon thousands… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
