"It is the job of the historian to……" — Reza Aslan
"It is the job of the historian to say what is likely, and of faith to say what is possible."
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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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Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western…
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Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
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I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person,…
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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in…
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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel…
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