Fox News anchors are actually more mechanical than sphex wasps
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i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
I listened to an NPR interview with Reza Aslan. His views are interesting and definitely well researched, though not necessarily anything that would rock the world of Christendom in terms of new points of view or anything that avoids the quibbling over vocabulary and translations that's typical of theological studies.
His scholarly discoveries also conveniently align with teachings in the Qur'an and his own conceptions of God and Jesus...so there's that.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
I didn't watch the video because watching Aslan talk about something on Fox news when I already heard him talk about in on NPR does not sound fun at all.
I can understand how someone could be offended or feel threatened by his point of view. It's definitely counter to popular Christian perspective and even Biblical canon.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Well, that's not exactly the best way to go about it, but honestly, I couldn't help but feel Aslan's motives for writing the book he did weren't just scholarly either.
He's an ex-Christian that converted to Islam specifically because he didn't feel or really understand that "God as a human" idea of Christianity, and Islam denies that aspect of the Bible in favor of Jesus as another prophet of God.
He's clearly well educated and has done plenty of work so that his book has a lot going for it, but that doesn't automatically mean he wrote it in absence of his personal beliefs.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
More specifically, his dad was an ex-Muslim turned atheist, Aslan converted to Christianity at an early age if memory serves, as did his mother. He later had something of a crisis of faith at college and one of his Catholic educators suggest he re-explore Islam.
He converted based on what I said above.
I'm going from memory here based on the NPR interview, but that should be more or less it.