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It is the job of the historian to say what is likely, and of faith to say what is possible.
Literature offers not just a window into the culture of diverse regions, but also the society, the politics; it's the only place where we can keep track of ideas.
Many of the prophets of Jesus's time were thought to just be mad men, just sort of crazy people who were claiming to channel the divine. Perhaps that means we should be a little less judgmental of some of our own crazies talking about God on the corner. They might actually have found a pretty comfortable place in Jesus's time.
Many poets in Iran have learned to speak almost a secret language, where political issues are talked about in allegorical ways.
Mike Huckabee and indeed many of the Christian conservatives in the U.S. have far more in common with the Muslim Brotherhood than they'd like to admit, in that all of them very much want to see a role of religion in society.
My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material.
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.
Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.
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.
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 Jews integrated themselves into American life to the point that the argument that the Jews aren't American sounded so stupid, that people stopped thinking it.
The key to recognizing who Jesus was is to recognize this fundamental truth: He was a Jew.
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.
The Muslim community is completely fractured - it doesn't really exist anymore; the only place it does exist is online.
The New Testament is not a historical document.
The Revolutionary Guard controls almost everything in Iran, and this is hurting the people.
The truth of the matter is that when you write about religion like I do, you're writing about something that people take very seriously.
There were dozens of people who walked through the Holy Land claiming to be the Messiah, curing the sick, exorcising demons, challenging Rome, gathering followers. In a way, there's nothing unique about what Jesus did. In fact, many of these so-called false Messiahs we know by name.
There's no question that homophobia is rampant among the world's 1.5 billion Muslims - but that doesn't negate the fact that there are huge groups of Muslims who have easily reconciled their faith and sexual orientation, like LGBT people in other faith communities.
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