"Many poets in Iran have learned to speak……" — Reza Aslan
"Many poets in Iran have learned to speak almost a secret language, where political issues are talked about in allegorical ways."
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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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More Allegorical Quotes
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Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and…
— Annie Besant
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You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one…
— Stanley Kubrick
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I believe in the theory of evolution, but I believe as well in the allegorical truth of creation theory. In…
— Christopher Langan
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Whenever you find a preacher who takes the Bible allegorically and figuratively...that preacher is preaching an allegorical gospel which is…
— Unknown Author
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When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.
— Barbet Schroeder
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Have you considered that the Bible, like all religious doctrine, may be allegorical and symbolic, to direct us toward one…
— Russell Brand
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The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show…
— Samuel Johnson
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Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and complex of realities to…
— Jon Meacham
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The men who were well enough to stand had moved across the carriage to cheer the Italians as they went…
— George Orwell
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Q.Do you have any positive message, in your opinion? A.Indeed I do think that I do. Q.Such as what? A.The…
— Tennessee Williams
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Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like…
— China Mieville
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