You can be a follower of Jesus and not necessarily be a Christian. — Reza Aslan Christian Copy Share Image
When you forcefully suppress religious nationalism, you radicalize it. — Reza Aslan Nationalism Copy Share Image
A politician is a politician whether he's wearing a suit or a funny hat. — Reza Aslan Hats Copy Share Image
The language of religion holds the most currency for the masses. — Reza Aslan Currency Copy Share Image
I have watched Muslims chant 'Death to America!' on the streets of Tehran, then privately beg me to help them get a… — Reza Aslan America 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
I think if you place Jesus firmly in the historical context... you can make very educated hypotheses and guesses about how he… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“Paul may be an excellent source for those interested in the early formation of Christianity, but he is a poor guide for… — Reza Aslan Bias Copy Share Image
In the 5,000-year history of Jewish thought, the notion of a God-man is completely anathema to everything Judaism stands for. — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Is it possible that Jesus, unlike 98 percent of his fellow Jews, was literate and educated? Yes, it's possible. — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology. — Reza Aslan Bigots Copy Share Image
The idea that education will lead to a lessening of bigotry is just factually incorrect. — Reza Aslan Bigotry Copy Share Image
There were dozens of people who walked through the Holy Land claiming to be the Messiah, curing the sick, exorcising demons, challenging… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
If the resistance is going to bring Trump down, it will require Democrats to follow the people, not the other way around.… — Reza Aslan Democracy 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 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 Beloved Copy Share Image
The first week or day that Obama was in office, he made it clear that peace in the Middle East would be… — Reza Aslan Choices Copy Share Image
I wouldn't call myself a Christian because I do not believe that Jesus is God, nor do I believe that he ever… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek, who has… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Whether or not you believe that after three days of being dead and entombed, Jesus got up and walked out of his… — Reza Aslan 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
The Israelis have not been willing to take the crucial step, and that is to withdraw from the Palestinian territory, the West… — Reza Aslan Israel Copy Share Image
“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… — Reza Aslan Christianity Copy Share Image
The people on the streets of Egypt and Tunisia and Libya and Syria and Iran have done more to defeat the ideology… — Reza Aslan 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
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
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
“According to Mark, it was a custom of the Roman governor during the feast of Passover to release one prisoner to the… — Reza Aslan Beyond belief Copy Share Image
“The very purpose of designing the Temple of Jerusalem as a series of ever more restrictive ingressions was to maintain the priestly… — Reza Aslan Jesus 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
A cosmic war is like a ritual drama in which participants act out on Earth a battle they believe is actually taking… — Reza Aslan Battle Copy Share Image
Authoritarians tend to consolidate support by using fear, but more importantly by driving a wedge among the people that they want to… — Reza Aslan Authoritarians Copy Share Image
The Revolutionary Guard controls almost everything in Iran, and this is hurting the people. — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Trump is a narcissistic sociopath; he's doing exactly what he said he would do. — Reza Aslan 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 Copy Share Image
“But no religion is inherently violent or peaceful; people are violent or peaceful.” — Reza Aslan Peace Copy Share Image
“They fully bloomed in the pages of the Bible and the Quran, where the Sumerian word ilu became transliterated as Elohim in… — Reza Aslan Bible Copy Share Image
