"I think if you place Jesus firmly in……" — Reza Aslan
"I think if you place Jesus firmly in the historical context... you can make very educated hypotheses and guesses about how he lived."
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39 Quotes by Reza Aslan
Reza Aslan has 39 quotes on this site.
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The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.
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Bill Maher is right to condemn religious practices that violate fundamental human rights. Religious communities must do more to counter…
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The way you confront an organization like that is twofold. No. 1, you kill their militants. There is no room…
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Well, to be clear, I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and…
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I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that…
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I really believe that to have a full impression of Jesus, both as Christ as a man, you must know…
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The idea that education will lead to a lessening of bigotry is just factually incorrect.
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Anyone who says that Iran will commit suicide with its nuclear power is a moron and has no business in…
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My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary…
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Is it possible that Jesus, unlike 98 percent of his fellow Jews, was literate and educated? Yes, it's possible.
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When you forcefully suppress religious nationalism, you radicalize it.
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The key to recognizing who Jesus was is to recognize this fundamental truth: He was a Jew.
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