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“Islam is more than a religion, it's much more than a religion, it's a way of life, it is a one party political system that has a very elaborate legal system that can put you to death if you leave it.” quote by Reza Aslan — Download Open image

“Islam is more than a religion, it's much more than a religion, it's a way of life, it is a one party political system that has a very elaborate legal system that can put you to death if you leave it.”

Reza Aslan

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Should I act violently in defense of my religion, absolutely.

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Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.

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“Scattered across the Roman Empire, it was only natural for the gospel writers to distance themselves from the Jewish independence movement by erasing, as…

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Well, to be clear, I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek…

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My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material.

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The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.

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“Pilate, as the histories reveal, was not one for trials. In his ten years as governor of Jerusalem, he had sent thousands upon thousands to the cross with a simple scratch of his reed pen on a slip of papyrus. The notion that he would even be in the same room as Jesus, let alone deign to grant him a…

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