Fox News anchor doesn't get why Reza Aslan, a Muslim, would write about Jesus. Never mind that he's a religious scholar ...
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By Jennifer Odell | August 1, 2013
"You're a Muslim, so why did you write a book about the founder of Christianity?"
That's how Fox News anchor Lauren Green kicked off an interview last week for "Spirited Debate" with religious scholar and bestselling author Reza Aslan. Aslan's new book,"Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth," posits that Jesus Christ was a political insurgent and looks at his affect on the unstable times in which he lived.Green, however, was not so interested in the content of the book. What she wanted to talk about was the bias and possible secret agenda that she implied had fueled Aslan's interest in the subject of Jesus.
"Well, to be clear," Aslan replied after Green's question led him to make the international sign for "are you effing kidding me?" with his eyebrows. "I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament, and fluency in biblical Greek, who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades … who also just happens to be a Muslim."
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