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 All time 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 Copy Share Image
“These abiding words of the Beatitudes are, more than anything else, a promise of impending deliverance from subservience and foreign rule. They… — Reza Aslan Kingdom of god Copy Share Image
The west is very concerned and actually afraid because the media is not informing them. There are too many moderate Muslims who… — Reza Aslan Concern Copy Share Image
I think by all accounts in the same way we look back on the anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish sentiments of our history with… — Reza Aslan Accounts Copy Share Image
There's only one reason to be crucified under the Roman Empire, and that is for treason or sedition. Crucifixion, we have to… — Reza Aslan Actually Copy Share Image
The religiously observant is lumped in with the nominal Muslim, the nominal Muslim is lumped in with the non-Muslim and the radical.… — Reza Aslan Arms Copy Share Image
Bill Maher is right to condemn religious practices that violate fundamental human rights. Religious communities must do more to counter extremist interpretations… — Reza Aslan Bigotry Copy Share Image
“Jesus was surely not the first exorcist to walk the shores of the Sea of Galilee. In first-century Palestine, professional wonder worker… — Reza Aslan Jesus Copy Share Image
Maybe when the President tells you that you should be afraid of Mexicans or Muslims or Jews or black people or gay… — Reza Aslan Aspiration Copy Share Image
When you forcefully suppress religious nationalism, you radicalize it. — Reza Aslan Nationalism Copy Share Image
One-fifth of Americans, 20% believe that Barak Obama is, himself, a Muslim and in fact - amongst Republicans that number is almost… — Reza Aslan Barak obama 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
There is absolutely no difference between religion and politics at all in Jesus' time. In other words, every seemingly religious word that… — Reza Aslan Clear Copy Share Image
“Three centuries of early Christian and Jewish documentation, not to mention the nearly unanimous opinion of contemporary scholars, recognize James the brother… — Reza Aslan Christian community 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 Comfortable Copy Share Image
Trump is not presidential: this is not normal, it cannot be treated as normal. We have to fight with our last breath… — Reza Aslan Breaths Copy Share Image
We have to remember that the United States has certain principles, certain values that bind us all together, that make us all… — Reza Aslan Certain 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
But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason you were… — Reza Aslan Know me Copy Share Image
The only question that matters with regard to a religion and its mythology is “What do these stories mean? — Reza Aslan Matter Copy Share Image
It's politically impossible, as you know, for any member of Congress to make a public statement condemning or criticizing the policies of… — Reza Aslan Agree 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 Air Copy Share Image
You can be a follower of Jesus and not necessarily be a Christian. — Reza Aslan Christian Copy Share Image
