Reza Aslan in Conversation with Jack Miles

[AlotofCarnage]

Wanna hear a joke? Religion.

[marlogue53]

How do you direct the many sides of Islams into a non violent dialogue within the Islamic world and with the rest of the world.

[erhan2brother]

@marlogue53 reza answered that question in 118.03 119.03 basicly the fundamentalists in america they can expres there ideas and the poeple can exept or reject there ideas but in the islamic world there ideas are being denieyd opressed and after being not able to expres there ideas than they become violent, also in my opinion its blaintlently obvious that muslims have been radicalized since 9.11 after the iraq war or the palestinian conflict etc etc you must understand those poeple have no life

[bhigr]

Reza, so if there is no reason for the Kaaba, then why do muslims circumambulate the kaaba when they perform pilgrimage to Mekkah?

[zafthedon]

@bhigr

According to muslim tradation the Kabba was first built by Adam pbuh the first prophet of God and the first Masjid (mosque) - later it was rebuilt by Abhraham pbuh.

Hope that helps

[ibd007]

i would like to make it clear that Ali was not the nephew of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), he was his cousion (chacha zad bhai).

[nashride]

This guy is brilliant. My Islamic studies professor told me I look like him :)

[MasterEtien]

Very nice conversation.I really enjoyed it.Thank you author.

[hamedessa]

anything made by humanity can be put to good or bad use.

[tiberux]

It is from my observations that I have found that an atheistic/objective approach to life is what humanity needs.

The path of science and logic is universal, it is something that NO ONE can deny.

[c101tx101]

In my opinion (I respect yours) Science is what has caused the deaths in humanity.

[Philfa]

THE deaths? Be more specific, please, so your dismantlement can be achieved with greater simplicity.

[hamedessa]

hiroshima

[Philfa]

While no one in his or her right mind would defend the production and use of nuclear weaponry, you can't blame science as a whole for its misuse. That's like if one person walks home and another walks into traffic and you blame the second person's death on walking.

In any case, considering all the life-saving medicines and vaccines produced by science, saying it has "caused the deaths in humanity" is a fucking indefensible, absurd statement.

[killerbandit]

Personally I find two men discussing W.O.W. more grounded in reality.

[shervman]

Great talk, but there was a slip by Reza, Ali was Mohammad's cousin not his nephew!

[dEEpindEEd]

I think that was by far one of the best conversations I heard in awhile.

[minilik9]

Reza looks so gay

[bahramf]

Do we have a thinker in our presence?

[proletariat1818]

he is gay

[cruelfate45]

I heard that gays are good at spotting gays

[proletariat1818]

you heard that right. but some straights are good at it as well. i dont have anything against him in fact i like him. i just assumed. didnt mean to offend anyone.

[cruelfate45]

Yeah, he's cool, gay or not never mattered. I couldn't tell. I wasn't really thinking about it actually.

[supermanpaki]

LOL