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Given that Aslan describes outspoken atheists as "fundamentalists" I would take anything he says about religion with an enormous grain of salt. Aslan claims to
by sjwright 8y ago
Given that Aslan describes outspoken atheists as "fundamentalists" I would take anything he says about religion with an enormous grain of salt. Aslan claims to speak about religion while choosing to remain willfully ignorant about irreligion; therefore you can't expect his views to be academically rigorous or well thought through.
As for his book, I realise that book publishers like to give their products sexy titles, but the title can't possibly be paid out in any non-fiction sense as we have exactly zero contemporaneous written accounts of Jesus' life. Anything he has written could only be a further digestion of the already contentious writings haphazardly collected into the book we now know as the Christian bible.
- dmckeon 8y agoIf you were to read the book, you might find it more about the times than about the man. The context of the time and the place and the various social and religious movements in the few decades before, during, and after the life of Christ informs the reader, and is worth a reading.
- sjwright 8y agoGiven that it's all bunch of vague speculation based on writings—and given the character of Jesus is certainly fictional—this would be a more interesting digestion of the material: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/trs/events/jandb/index.aspx https://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/trs/events/jandb/index.... https://soundcloud.com/kings-college-london/jesus-and-brian-what-have-the-pythons-done-for-us https://soundcloud.com/kings-college-london/jesus-and-brian-...