“Faith is a choice; anyone who says otherwise is trying to convert you.” — Reza Aslan Choice Copy Share Image
The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it. — Reza Aslan Islam 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
Many poets in Iran have learned to speak almost a secret language, where political issues are talked about in allegorical ways. — 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… — 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
“Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth. I have not come to bring peace, but the sword.… — Reza Aslan Nature Copy Share Image
The only question that matters with regard to a religion and its mythology is “What do these stories mean? — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Religion, it must be understood, is not faith. Religion is the story of faith. — Reza Aslan Faith Copy Share Image
Few Iranians these days go through the fiction of calling themselves 'Persian.' Calling yourself Persian is a way of distancing themselves from… — Reza Aslan 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
“As a text, the Quran is more than the foundation of the Islamic religion; it is the source of Arabic grammar. It… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“The Son of God Among Greeks and Romans,” Harvard Theological Review 93.2 (2000): 85–100. Two zealous rabbis, Judas son of Sepphoraeus and… — Reza Aslan Herod 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
Well, to be clear, I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in… — Reza Aslan Biblical 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 Copy Share Image
I really believe that to have a full impression of Jesus, both as Christ as a man, you must know about the… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Religion is, by definition, interpretation; and by definition, all interpretations are valid. However, some interpretations are more reasonable than others. — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“That, more than anything else, explains why, throughout human history, religion has been a force both for boundless good and for unspeakable… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
I have to say that it's a weird feeling to have to respond to a Christian leader of an anti-Muslims organisation -… — Reza Aslan 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
“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
“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
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 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
“The choice between James’s vision of a Jewish religion anchored in the Law of Moses and derived from a Jewish nationalist who… — Reza Aslan Faith Copy Share Image
“There are two distinct methods of interpreting the Quran. The first, tafsir, is primarily concerned with elucidating the literal meaning of the… — Reza Aslan Islam 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
“A king with no place to lay his head. A king who came to serve, not to be served.” — Reza Aslan King Copy Share Image
The key to recognizing who Jesus was is to recognize this fundamental truth: He was a Jew. — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Anyone who says that Iran will commit suicide with its nuclear power is a moron and has no business in discussion. — Reza Aslan Business Copy Share Image
“It is a miracle that we know anything at all about the man called Jesus of Nazareth.” — Reza Aslan Jesus Copy Share Image
Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. — Reza Aslan American history 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 Bible Copy Share Image
Over the last few years, the Islamic world has produced more female presidents and prime ministers than both Europe and North America… — Reza Aslan America Copy Share Image
