Reza Aslan Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 struggle to describe what it means to be alive, it will be a ready-made language to express those feelings.”

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

“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.”

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