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Reza Aslan

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, it was often the case that the criminal would be killed first and then crucified.

— Reza Aslan men

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

— Reza Aslan religion

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. In fact, many of these so-called false Messiahs we know by name.

— Reza Aslan people

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 judgmental of some of our own crazies talking about God on the corner. They might actually have found a pretty comfortable place in Jesus's time.

— Reza Aslan time

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 this country devoted to making Americans think there's an enemy within.

— Reza Aslan violence

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

— Reza Aslan power

When you forcefully suppress religious nationalism, you radicalize it.

— Reza Aslan religious

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 religion

I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and I understand the metaphor of that belief.

— Reza Aslan faith

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 goals

The more I started studying the historical Jesus, the man who lived 2,000 years ago... the more I started to realize that there was this chasm between the historical Jesus and the Jesus that I had been taught about in church.

— Reza Aslan art

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 be Muslim.

— Reza Aslan religion

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 war

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

— Reza Aslan men

There's nothing more distasteful than an academic having to, like, trot out his credentials. You really come off as a jerk when you do that.

— Reza Aslan you

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 the most sense to me.

— Reza Aslan faith

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 the cause of jihad.

— Reza Aslan time

Whether you're talking about MSNBC or Fox or CNN, it's all about getting enough interest out there, sensationalizing the story in such a way that people are compelled to tune in.

— Reza Aslan people

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

— Reza Aslan faith

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

— Reza Aslan community

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

— Reza Aslan sin

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 history

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

— Reza Aslan cat

Many poets in Iran have learned to speak almost a secret language, where political issues are talked about in allegorical ways.

— Reza Aslan language

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 men

Theres 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, it was often the case that the criminal would be killed first and then crucified.

— Reza Aslan men

If you ask a Saudi Imam why women in Saudi Arabia cant drive, hell say, Because Islam demands it. But thats absurd, because - first of all - Islam demands no such thing; and secondly, the only country in the world in which women cant drive is Saudi Arabia. The inability to understand the difference between a cultural practice and religious belief is shocking among self-described intellectuals.

— Reza Aslan women

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