Reza Aslan Quotes

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• The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.
• Bill Maher is right to condemn religious practices that violate fundamental human rights. Religious communities must do more to counter extremist interpretations of their faith.…
• The way you confront an organization like that is twofold. No. 1, you kill their militants. There is no room for discussion or negotiation when…
• Well, to be clear, I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek who…
• I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and I understand the…
• I really believe that to have a full impression of Jesus, both as Christ as a man, you must know about the world that gave…
• The idea that education will lead to a lessening of bigotry is just factually incorrect.
• Anyone who says that Iran will commit suicide with its nuclear power is a moron and has no business in discussion.
• My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material.
• Is it possible that Jesus, unlike 98 percent of his fellow Jews, was literate and educated? Yes, it's possible.
• When you forcefully suppress religious nationalism, you radicalize it.
• The key to recognizing who Jesus was is to recognize this fundamental truth: He was a Jew.
• I think if you place Jesus firmly in the historical context... you can make very educated hypotheses and guesses about how he lived.
• You can be a follower of Jesus and not necessarily be a Christian.
• Indonesia, women are absolutely 100 percent equal to men
• 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 groups…
• Islam doesn't promote violence or peace. Islam is just a religion, and like every religion in the world, it depends on what you bring to…
• For an academic to launch a public conversation about journalistic integrity, the role of religion in society, scholarship and faith is a dream come true.…
• When you're a brown Muslim from Iran talking about Jesus on TV, you need to keep your cool at all times, OK? That's not rocket…
• The people on the streets of Egypt and Tunisia and Libya and Syria and Iran have done more to defeat the ideology of Al Qaeda…

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