Author Reza Aslan Explores Uncomfortable Facts About Jesus

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   In the video clip below, author Reza Aslan makes pointed discusses the pseudipigraha, a literary matrix in which early Christian writers wrote.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudepigrapha

     

   We now know that the four canonical gospels were composite compositions whose various authors believed that putting an apostle’s name on their own work was in no way an abuse of truth (as our current scientific mentality would argue) but rather an act of homage, alignment and even submission to the lineage and witness of the "named" apostle himself. 

   
   

   It is ironic that fundamentalist Christians use "literalism" to confine themselves to epistemological traps, needless contraptions that make scripture less meaningful, when the original non-literal approach to sacred scripture was -- and, for many, still is -- more meaningful. 
   
   Notably, modern passion for biblical "literalism" emerged in the late 1800s, mostly through the destructive work of The Niagara Bible Convention. 
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalism
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_fundamentalism
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara_Bible_Conference

   
   

   Recently, I posted about fundamentalism's conception of God-as-terrorist. Just as God is belittled and demeaned by representing "Him" as a deity who would create a Universe in which human beings might burn -- forever -- in a Lake of Neverending Fire," so too do they belittle and demean The Bible by shackling it to so-called (but intrinsically impossible) Literalism. 

   
   

   "Mistakes In Scripture: When The Bible Gets The Bible Wrong"

   http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/05/mistakes-in-scripture-when-bible-gets.html
   
   "Biblical Literalism And The Cultivation Of Hatred"
   http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/02/biblical-literalism-and-cultivation-of.html
   
   "Biblical Literalism Kills - Literally"
   http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/10/biblical-literalism-kills-literally.html

   
   

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   Jul 16, 2013

   Reza Aslan joins Ahmed to explore some of the moreuncomfortable facts about Jesus.