![]() ![]() Or, indeed, whether any attempt at this sort of biography does – a depiction of Jesus the man, rather than Jesus the Christ. ![]() ![]() This seemed fitting reward for such a textbook observation of the injunction to “resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.”Īmusing though this karmic payoff was, it left open the question of whether Zealot deserves that much attention on its own merits. Aslan’s implacable composure and bemused courtesy in the face of Green’s vapid blathering sent the clip viral, and Zealot to the top of the bestseller charts. Green was obsessed with the idea that Aslan, a Muslim religious scholar, had summoned the temerity to write about the founder of Christianity – a heresy she compared, at one especially weird point, to “a Democrat writing a book about why Reagan wasn’t a good Republican” (which would, of course, be a perfectly reasonable thing for a Democrat to do). Lauren Green, Fox’s Chief Religion Correspondent, subjected Aslan to an inquisition inane and fatuous even by Fox’s lofty standards of inanity and fatuity, focusing not on Zealot itself but on Aslan’s suitability as its author. Reza Aslan was the author granted a priceless publicity gift by Fox News in the course of promoting this book. ![]() This article is from the Spring 2014 issue of New Humanist magazine. ![]()
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