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Well I wouldn't want to tell Obama specifically what to do, but obviously he's already promised publicly and privately, both before and after he was elected president, that he was going to open up communications with Iran.

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Reza Aslan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: May 3
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But every year you grow, you will find me bigger.
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You can be a follower of Jesus and not necessarily be a Christian.
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I'm interested in the origins of the religious experience, how the history of religion has evolved over the last umpteen thousand years, and where religiosity is going in the future. I think that's a topic I've been chewing on for a few years I would love to eventually work on and produce a book out of it.
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I think if you place Jesus firmly in the historical context... you can make very educated hypotheses and guesses about how he lived.
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Religion is never going to go away, and anyone who thinks it will doesn't understand what religion is. It is a language to describe the experience of human nature, so for as long as people struggle to describe what it means to be alive, it will be a ready-made language to express those feelings.
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