Reza Aslan, The Daily Show, May 13, 2015

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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

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I'm glad Reza is willing to let the cat out of the bag:

Religion does not give values.

However, when you take a religious text **and believe that it is true** it is supposed to be a giver of values.

However, since we realize it DOES NOT DO THAT, we should go ahead and doubt the veracity of the text, and the underlying ideas behind it.

His argument is an argument AGAINST religion and he doesn't even realize it.


If your intellectual heroes are atheists and you are a Muslim, you're doing it wrong. Sorry Reza.

Nice guy and all, but not terribly sharp