{"id":11502,"date":"2013-07-21T21:33:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T03:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=11502"},"modified":"2013-07-21T21:36:12","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T03:36:12","slug":"reza-aslan-talks-about-the-historical-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/reza-aslan-talks-about-the-historical-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Reza Aslan talks about the historical Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A really interesting interview of Reza Aslan on The Daily Show: <\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color:#000000;width:520px;\">\n<div style=\"padding:4px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:427819\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;background-color:#FFFFFF;padding:4px;margin-top:4px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/wed-july-17-2013\/exclusive---reza-aslan-extended-interview-pt--1\">The Daily Show with Jon Stewart<\/a><\/b><br \/>Get More: <a href='http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/full-episodes\/'>Daily Show Full Episodes<\/a>,<a href='http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/indecision'>Indecision Political Humor<\/a>,<a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thedailyshow'>The Daily Show on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color:#000000;width:520px;\">\n<div style=\"padding:4px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:427820\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;background-color:#FFFFFF;padding:4px;margin-top:4px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/wed-july-17-2013\/exclusive---reza-aslan-extended-interview-pt--2\">The Daily Show with Jon Stewart<\/a><\/b><br \/>Get More: <a href='http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/full-episodes\/'>Daily Show Full Episodes<\/a>,<a href='http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/indecision'>Indecision Political Humor<\/a>,<a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thedailyshow'>The Daily Show on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color:#000000;width:520px;\">\n<div style=\"padding:4px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:427821\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;background-color:#FFFFFF;padding:4px;margin-top:4px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/wed-july-17-2013\/exclusive---reza-aslan-extended-interview-pt--3\">The Daily Show with Jon Stewart<\/a><\/b><br \/>Get More: <a href='http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/full-episodes\/'>Daily Show Full Episodes<\/a>,<a href='http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/indecision'>Indecision Political Humor<\/a>,<a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thedailyshow'>The Daily Show on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I thought Jon Oliver&#8217;s comments were really insightful:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;I like this man. I liked the guy who was the day laborer, who was probably illiterate who was a radical nationalist. I like this guy. I like him a whole lot me than the bird statue. He means more to me. You can have a personal relationship with this man and I have to wonder what the hell he would feel about &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/images\/search?q=touchdown+Jesus&#038;qpvt=touchdown+Jesus&#038;FORM=IGRE\" target=\"_blank\">touchdown Jesus<\/a>.&#8221; I wonder if this guy would be like &#8216;What is that? It seems sacrilegious but it&#8217;s also it&#8217;s kind of great.'&#8221; &#8211; Jon Oliver <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if in focusing so much on the divinity of God, we&#8217;ve lost the humanity that reaches out to so many people.<\/p>\n<p>Adding Reza Aslan&#8217;s book to my Wish List.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A really interesting interview of Reza Aslan on The Daily Show: The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/reza-aslan-talks-about-the-historical-jesus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reza Aslan talks about the historical Jesus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[771,4498,286,4645,4497],"class_list":["post-11502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-daily-show","tag-historical-jesus","tag-jesus","tag-politics","tag-reza-aslan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-2Zw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11502"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11505,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11502\/revisions\/11505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}