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Reza Aslan  Quotes
[Islam] is the dynamic conviction that a person’s spiritual and worldly responsibilities are one and the same, that an individuals duty to the community is indistinguishable from his or her duty to God.

—Reza Aslan

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I wouldn’t call myself a Christian because I do not believe that Jesus is God, nor do I believe that he ever thought that he was God, or that he ever said that he was...

—Reza Aslan

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[…] pluralism implies religious tolerance, not unchecked religious freedom.

—Reza Aslan

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There were dozens of people who walked through the Holy Land claiming to be the Messiah, curing the sick, exorcising demons, challenging Rome, gathering followers. In a way, there’s nothing unique about what Jesus did....

—Reza Aslan

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Mike Huckabee and indeed many of the Christian conservatives in the U.S. have far more in common with the Muslim Brotherhood than they’d like to admit, in that all of them very much want to...

—Reza Aslan

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Jesus was surely not the first exorcist to walk the shores of the Sea of Galilee. In first-century Palestine, professional wonder worker was a vocation as well established as that of woodworker or mason, and...

—Reza Aslan

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It is the job of the historian to say what is likely, and of faith to say what is possible.

—Reza Aslan

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

—Reza Aslan

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I’m interested in the origins of the religious experience, how the history of religion has evolved over the last umpteen thousand years, and where religiosity is going in the future. I think that’s a topic...

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Like most people born into a religious tradition, my faith was as familiar to me as my skin, and just as disregardable.

—Reza Aslan

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Anyone who says that Iran will commit suicide with its nuclear power is a moron and has no business in discussion.

—Reza Aslan

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Religion is never going to go away, and anyone who thinks it will doesn’t understand what religion is. It is a language to describe the experience of human nature, so for as long as people...

—Reza Aslan

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The very purpose of designing the Temple of Jerusalem as a series of ever more restrictive ingressions was to maintain the priestly monopoly over who can and cannot come into the presence of God and...

—Reza Aslan

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American Muslims – young American Muslims in particular – are starting to understand that unless they are willing to stand up for all the other oppressed communities in this country, including those discriminated against for...

—Reza Aslan

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There’s only one reason to be crucified under the Roman Empire, and that is for treason or sedition. Crucifixion, we have to understand, was not actually a form of capital punishment for Rome. In fact,...

—Reza Aslan

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In the 5,000-year history of Jewish thought, the notion of a God-man is completely anathema to everything Judaism stands for.

—Reza Aslan

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A politician is a politician whether he’s wearing a suit or a funny hat.

—Reza Aslan

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In the history of the prophetic biblical canon that starts with Genesis, the Koran is by far the most tolerant of the views of other religions.

—Reza Aslan

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The Jews integrated themselves into American life to the point that the argument that the Jews aren’t American sounded so stupid, that people stopped thinking it.

—Reza Aslan

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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...

—Reza Aslan

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What the printing press is to Christianity in the 16th century, that’s what the Internet is doing to Islam now. It has opened up the monopoly over the interpretation of Islam that used to solely...

—Reza Aslan

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Many of the prophets of Jesus’s time were thought to just be mad men, just sort of crazy people who were claiming to channel the divine. Perhaps that means we should be a little less...

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Is it possible that Jesus, unlike 98 percent of his fellow Jews, was literate and educated? Yes, it’s possible.

—Reza Aslan

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Whether for good or for bad, the Iran that ultimately rises out of the ashes of last summer’s uprising will be unlike the Iran we know today, and for that we can thank the Green...

—Reza Aslan

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When you forcefully suppress religious nationalism, you radicalize it.

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I have watched Muslims chant ‘Death to America!’ on the streets of Tehran, then privately beg me to help them get a visa to the United States.

—Reza Aslan

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Thus it is written that the messiah would suffer and rise again on the third day,” Jesus instructs his disciples (Luke 24:44–46). Except that nowhere is any such thing written: not in the Law of...

—Reza Aslan

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The key to recognizing who Jesus was is to recognize this fundamental truth: He was a Jew.

—Reza Aslan

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Islamophobia has become so mainstream in this country that Americans have been trained to expect violence against Muslims – not excuse it, but expect it. And that’s happened because you have an Islamophobia industry in...

—Reza Aslan

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The idea of literalism in the Bible is a very new phenomenon. In many ways, it’s a product of the scientific revolution.

—Reza Aslan

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Those who did know Jesus – those who followed him into Jerusalem as its king and helped him cleanse the Temple in God’s name, who were there when he was arrested and who watched him...

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It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of America’s foreign policy goals in the Middle East. As Syria goes, so goes the region.

—Reza Aslan

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The choice between James’s vision of a Jewish religion anchored in the Law of Moses and derived from a Jewish nationalist who fought against Rome, and Paul’s vision of a Roman religion that divorced itself...

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The Muslim community is completely fractured – it doesn’t really exist anymore; the only place it does exist is online.

—Reza Aslan

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I’m a person of faith, and the language that I use to define my faith, the symbols and metaphors that I rely upon to express my faith, are those provided by Islam because they make...

—Reza Aslan

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The idea that education will lead to a lessening of bigotry is just factually incorrect.

—Reza Aslan

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Paul may be an excellent source for those interested in the early formation of Christianity, but he is a poor guide for uncovering the historical Jesus.

—Reza Aslan

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A cosmic war is like a ritual drama in which participants act out on Earth a battle they believe is actually taking place in the heavens.

—Reza Aslan

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This is an extremely difficult matter for modern readers of the gospels to grasp, but Luke never meant for his story about Jesus’s birth at Bethlehem to be understood as historical fact. Luke would have...

—Reza Aslan

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

—Reza Aslan

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The New Testament is not a historical document.

—Reza Aslan

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Paul’s portrayal of Jesus as Christ may sound familiar to contemporary Christians—it has since become the standard doctrine of the church—but it would have been downright bizarre to Jesus’s Jewish followers. The transformation of the...

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I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek, who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades, who also happens to...

—Reza Aslan

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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 much as possible, any hint of radicalism or violence, revolution or...

—Reza Aslan

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Every single interview I have ever done on TV or in print says I’m a Muslim.

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Nobody, absolutely nobody, straps a bomb on their body because they were recruited from the Internet. It takes an enormous amount of personal face-to-face contact and time in order to recruit a young person into...

—Reza Aslan

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The truth of the matter is that when you write about religion like I do, you’re writing about something that people take very seriously.

—Reza Aslan

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What evil has he done?” But the crowd shouts all the louder for Jesus’s death. “Crucify him! Crucify him!” (Mark 15:1–20). The scene is absolutely nonsensical. Never mind that outside the gospels there exists not...

—Reza Aslan

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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.

—Reza Aslan

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