Reza Aslan Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“'Zeal' is essentially a compromising devotion to God, a commitment to cleansing the Holy Land of all foreign and pagan presences and to re-establish the kingdom of David as God had intended.”

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

“Few Iranians these days go through the fiction of calling themselves 'Persian.' Calling yourself Persian is a way of distancing themselves from Iran.”

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

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

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

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

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

“The New Testament is not a historical document.”