Reza Aslan, The Daily Show, May 13, 2015

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Reza Aslan is a religious scholar and writer whose works include "Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth" (2013), "How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror" (2009) and "No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam" (2005). Aslan teaches creative writing at the University of California, Riverside. His writing has been published in The New York Times, Slate, The Daily Beast, The Christian Science Monitor and The Washington Post, and he makes frequent appearances on TV and radio shows as a religious and political analyst.He is the founder of Aslan Media and the co-founder of BoomGen Studios.









Full interview @
http://thedailyshow.cc.com/full-episodes/okco56/may-13--2015---reza-aslan

Comments

[telemann.livejournal.com]

That's not a really or a very compelling argument against Reza's points but sobeit.

[garote]

Do you want me to make a compelling argument against an obvious red herring?

As I said, I expect more from Reza Aslan. Specifically, given his work as an author, I expect something like:

"What we need, in both Islam and Christianity, is a new new testament, written in clear unambiguous language, that disowns all the barbaric and contradictory things that god or its followers did and said, and acknowledges almost all of the rest as historical fiction with no divine inspiration backing it. Let's get that movement - that conversation about what is truly central to our faith - started and make progress on it, and then perhaps we can spend the 21st century integrating ourselves more with the moderate and the thoughtful of the non-religious, than struggling to find distance from the oppressive and the insane of the religious."

[telemann.livejournal.com]

That's not compelling, that's wharrgarbl.

[garote]

Hah! Well you can lead a horse to water...

[telemann.livejournal.com]

;)