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“Despite two millennia of Christian apologetics, the fact is that belief in a dying and rising messiah simply did not exist in Judaism. In…

— Reza Aslan

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

— Reza Aslan

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

— Reza Aslan

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

— Reza Aslan

“There is a term for this phenomenon—politicomorphism, or “the divinization of earthly politics”—and it is, to this day, one of the central features of…

— Reza Aslan

Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

— Reza Aslan

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…

— Reza Aslan

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

— Reza Aslan

“There would be no more record of who was rich and who was poor. Everyone in this new and divinely inspired world order would…

— Reza Aslan

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

— Reza Aslan

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

— Reza Aslan

“Pilate, as the histories reveal, was not one for trials. In his ten years as governor of Jerusalem, he had sent thousands upon thousands…

— Reza Aslan