REZA ASLAN: A HUMAN HISTORY OF GOD
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- Religion has always been something that both unites and divides us humans. To Reza Aslan, it seems that we focus more and more on the differences. Many people would be surprised to learn how much collaboration there was between the major religions at the time of their development, and how many similarities there are as a result. Aslan, a renowned scholar of religious history, delves into this in his book God: A Human History. He focuses on the remarkably cohesive attempt to understand the divine in human terms-nearly every religious tradition, as Aslan writes, conceives of God as “a divine version of ourselves.”
But this projection is not without consequences. As conceptions of God take on those qualities of virtue in human nature-compassion, a desire for justice-the divine also exhibits our greed and inclination toward violence. Having published best-selling books on the future of Islam, the life of Jesus Christ and religious extremism in a globalizing world, Aslan is especially prepared to answer these questions. No matter your religious beliefs, join us for a conversation that is sure to challenge your own conception of the divine and how it has shaped our world today.
It is challenging to present complex ideas in a simple way but Aslan's gift of oration is impeccable
I just got masters degree watching this guy for an hour. Thank you all
Rza take jesus from Muslim history to Christian history to historical jesus of all ages to jesus of faith only 4 fame not stupid
TheLeadersTeacher that's funny because that's exactly how Reza got his PhD in religion.
@@Kitties_are_pretty it is so funny you a hater and do you know what haters do? They hate
@@KhalidBoqorShow I don't care what you have to say. I am a highly-trained scholar on this subject and I have no reason to pretend that you're qualified enough to disagree with me.
@@Kitties_are_pretty I really don't care about if you are an schoolers or what ever. Respect yourself and others. I don't think you need degrees to understand that.
I can’t believe I just found out this amazing human being, I love the way he expresses himself, so easy to understand and follow as well
This man alone has brought me back to myself and to my spiritual core. Thank you, Doctor - you have healed a human!
How so? If I may ask. I want that too.
natureallmighty
Surely trolling?
@@paultokjian7915 me to I want to know how she has been healed?
Dumb comment
This man ate the brains of another man. Hes a cannibal. You want to be saved by him?
Religion is a road, faith is what we expect to find at the end of that road..
Reza himself used terms like 'symbols and metaphors" to describe this "ineffable experience" Which can also be applied to a trip down a road...so if faith is fundamentally an emotion, then faith is an emotion which relates to what we expect to find at the end of that road.
Go with the force people!
I would say that if religion is the road, then faith is the gravity that keeps you stuck down to the road. What you expect to find at the end of the road of religion is not the faith that kept you on the road, but rather you expect to find gods love and acceptance of you. Faith is not the reward faith is the belief in the reward to come
Humaning God is the mother of all problems
Religion as a basic guide is ok, humans use it for political and selfish needs, destroying it's beauty..
@M L Man is very fickle,one minute they praise something the next curse it.We give titles to our kind snd worship each other.God gave us freewill and still wecan appreciate it.Man builds Man destroy,its so typical.The lord send us here to help each other,the lord doesn't need our prayers, because we are always asking,not giving We create religions to love not to hate.The creator of creation hasn't got human qualities,so stop humanising god Its beyond our understanding.We are basically copy paste followers of religion.But it's a powerful tool to control the people.
Yes, Reza is an excellent teacher as well as a far-reaching thinker. Thanks for giving him a platform to profess his ideas!
Our pleasure!
Great conversation.Rezza very knowledgeable
An excellent presentation. Thank you
Very insightful discussion. Thanks again Reza.
Great, many thanks.👍👍👍
My deep down heartfelt gratitude for such educational speech. Tomorrow im gonna to grab your knowledge stuck in a book form🙏🏿🪻🙏🏿🪻
With no knowledge of why we exist but knowing that we die and go away, it seems logical that religion plays the role in TRYING to justify why these things occur to us because no clear explanation is forthcoming from the world into which we are born. Religion is a touchstone talisman and those who require security and justification of their existences seem to require increasingly detailed qualifications of their chosen religion which will explain all the “whys” and “where’s”. In truth all of these are shots in the dark because we do not know. Faith is the belief that we can make some sense of our existence.
What you said is true, Yet *RELIGION* just confuses humans more about their existence.
why do people always find jesus but never god ?
Might burials (even those containing ornaments) be more to do with odours rather than souls?
The key word here is spirituality regardless of religious denomination...
GREAT RELIGIOUS THINKER OF OUR TIME.
SYED SHAHNAWAZ wow you haven't lived. Why do you think he's so great? Just because he can put some nice words together? He wears a very good facade to make him seem so. He is no Great Soul walking this planet just because he puts nice words together.
@@grosbeak6130 MY FRIEND I AM ALMOST 68 YEARS OLD AND TRUST ME I AM STILL LIVING(sadly). WHO says about great souls ?How can we be judgmental about such things? YOU MAY AGREE OR DISAGREE WITH ANY BODY, THAT IS PERFECTLY ALL RIGHT. TELL ME ONE THING (WITH ALL DUE RESPECT) HOW COULD YOU PEEP- IN IN SOME BODY'S SOUL ABOUT IT'S GREATNESS OR ABSENCE OF IT?
Where?
@@syedshahnawaz1536 I hope to have your level of wisdom if I do reach your age. The individual who proclaimed to know all with his ridiculous "wow you haven't lived" would have received a much uglier reply from me. Thank you for your rebuttal. I too think Reza Aslan is a wonderful religious thinker.
@@artieboy24 Thanks my friend. After all the ups and downs of the Human civilization, and all the killings and butchery in the name of religion and myriad "Isms ".I think it's time for understanding the True nature of us "the human beings ".
Weird. 95/97 minutes of listening to Aslan's view that the human view of 'god" is mostly just a projection of our "identities" developing over time, which includes all of our positive AND negative qualities. In the last 2 minutes he asserts that any revelation was relevant to the temporal circumstances.
Reza we love you, like seeing the Face of a Murshid in modern times, I feel like a true mureed. Thaank you for being in our lives, you are a blessing
Zaeema- he ate human flesh is a bad scholar, is no reporter and eats flesh like a pencil neck geek.
@@jeanscottbenson Texas sharpshooter fallacy
Reza is the best
The Yellow Vests were indignant about the huge designations of funding to repair a symbol, yet for months and years funding being unable to be found to redress inflation and job insecurity
Brilliant 😇
I like him his so clam and kind
J J are you kidding, not too long ago he talked about kids yes kids faces being so punchable. Yes he said that on his own Twitter account when that story came out several months ago about the Covington high school kids faces being so punchable. Just because someone comes on stage here and puts on a calm demeanor doesn't tell you truly what's going on behind a facade. You're making just a superficial discernment. He has very much so about himself once you get to know a very slanted political agenda to his whole thinking apparatus.
J J Accept for when he eats other people.
Reza massively underestimates the necessity of religion in an evolutionary context. Religion was the most effective mechanism for transmitting best practices intergenerationally, period - especially when there is a lack of abstracted concepts and stories/myths have to be used instead. His view of burial as seemingly random and unnecessary is so simplistic I'm stunned he even pursued that line of thought. Burial aligns with the idea of revering the (valuable) wisdom of your ancestors, mourning, dignity for the deceased, etc - and burial happens infrequently enough that the opportunity cost of the act is LITERALLY negligible. I don't get why Reza down plays the blatantly functionalist origins of religion, or why he thinks the anthropomorphizing of God's is anything other than a reflection of the fact that early humans would have framed ALL phenomenon in the context of themselves because no sophisticated abstractions existed to frame phenomenon that they instinctually needed to categorize (e.g. a lightning strike blowing up a tree and setting it on fire).
This is interesting, but would you care to share some sources on your end for this?
As a Muslim he himself claims himself to be a Muslim, he speaks like a Atheist. I don't know how a person can have his beliefs and claim to be a Muslim. His views clash at a fundamental level.
@@Nomad_786 You may be a Christian without believing in everything that the church proposes. We are born into a religion first but a lot of us start to question religious beliefs sometimes completely abandoning those beliefs and sometimes retaining some. Many Christians today don’t believe in immaculate conception, bringing the dead to life, changing water to wine but still enjoy belonging to their religious communities.
Atheist
Christian
Muslim
Damn.. u traveled it all. U live life in all religion
I'm having a hard time understanding why he thinks it is less sensical to believe that there isn't a god than it is to believe there is?
Is he saying that due to the fact that human history points to people believing in a god or is he saying something else that I am missing. Also I have a question about when he was discussing the origins of religion saying how people misconstrued religion being moral. I can understand him saying how it wasn't made to be moral but what exactly was it made for then? My interpretation of what was said that religion came about to give purpose or reason for things which people need explaination for which is why it is such a reflection of the self.
If this is true why do so many people identify with these religions that came about because of a Messiah? Would that not be a contradiction of humans beings so different which is why people have so many different beliefs?
Good questions
Love this guy
@Getshwifty supershwifty shut up troll
Just a thought, but has anyone a shread of evidence for the existence of supernatural Gods, fairies or winged horses?
That’s not what this is about. It’s about how human their is a human impulse toward religion since the beginning of time. Maybe read the books and you’ll see that he isn’t talking about evidence for the presence god(s), but rather the reason behind our impulse for or towards religion.
Please read the Bible with a open mind with no presumptions. That’s hard to these days but if the Bible is false or just a metaphor make sure before you die because eternity is too long to be wrong.
When Reza claims that atheists, when asked to describe a "god", do accept the challenge, and in fact attempt to describe some "thing", leaves me feeling surprised... at the very least. That he (or anyone else for that matter) could have such an experience with even a marginally intelligent atheist, i find suspect. i AM an atheist and i would never attempt to describe something i have no clear concept of in the first place. furthermore, in the conversations i have with theists, THEY are the ones seemingly very willing to take on the impossible challenge of describing their "god" and they do so, at a minimum, by ascribing at least one trait or feature to that so-called "god". Additionally and with virtually all cases in my personal experience, their descriptions are given in an effort to "prove" that their "god" is real in some way or another...
He just eat a little bit of human brain guys,you are overreacting.
As Hitch says, some folks will always play with their religious toys, and the fear of death makes folks cling on the hope they will be united with their pet dog in the afterlife.
Reza Aslan is a huxter … a salesman … the product of affirmative action. Zealot is merely a sustained reductionist argument. There's a reason he's relegated to a creative writing program. Zero scholarship and baseless assertions = a bookseller
Correct. His work is pseudoscience. Completely biased and has no scholarship behind it.
How
It's a well researched reductionist argument
Agreed, does he believe in a personal supernatural God or not.
Yet to have his answer.
How dare you, he has a bachelors in Sociology and some other degrees. I am almost as qualified as he is in religious studies as I have a bachelors in English literature and I also took a course in mechanics. So, I think you can see I am at a higher level of sophistication than you on these topics.
He calls himself a Muslim and slowly converts everyone to atheist.
abubakar mohammed Reza Aslan here is such a farce. Yes he has a degree in religious history or studies, but it is so colored and slanted by his own idiosyncratic spiritual politics as to be nothing but a form of his own personal humanism and ego.
I AM THE CAPTAIN NOW!
It's difficult to preach religion in this modern world. You can only hit facts in ppls mind
I don't mind this guy and I'm a committed Christian. I find him quite balanced and reasonable.
Reza: You have said that Jesus believed that the gentiles would enter the church at the end of time.
When did Jesus see this "end time" event taking place, and do you see that time as having begun in the 1st century?
Thank you, for naming your partner and mentioning what she does - not in some nameless, ‘my wife’ way.
I love Reza Aslan and think that his heart is in the right place. I think he would benefit from Eckhart Tolle's "A New Earth". Religion, faith, or whatever you want to call that label is exactly that, a label and dictated by an ego searching for an identity!
Dumb comment
I hope your ego is feeling superior now! You need to read the same book buddy!
My Big Toe, Tom Campbell.
8:44 spot on.
Why doesn’t he say aliens 👽 which isn’t a far off idea Reza
Why would a muslim be named after that Jesus lion?
How come he became a muslim after he debunked all religions?
Oh boy america has become an intellectual desert. So this was like walking into an Oasis, Thanks Mr Aslan
Joke, right?
I could listen to reza aslan speak anytime... but it is never too late to learn: Garner’s Modern English Usage (4th ed.) says, “Misusing gambit for gamut is an increasingly common malapropism,” but Bryan A. Garner, the author, lists it at only the lowest stage in his five-stage language-change index.
The term “malapropism” refers to the unintentionally comic misuse of a word, especially by confusing it with a similar-sounding one. The misuse of “gambit” for “gamut” may also be called an “eggcorn,” mistaking a word or phrase for a similar-sounding one. :) :) :)
yeah you might want to listen to him but would sit down for dinner with him ?
@@MrBigtime1986 yes! i would cook dinner for him and eat it with him :) :)
Wonder, Why he wants to identify himself as Muslim ?
Maybe because he is in his own way. Like many jews and christians do.
Ben... DCN
Reza Aslan says extremely mean things ............and intentionally ate part of a dead person on a t.v. program. He has issues and is no paragon. la post
There were quite a few obnoxious moments in this for me. For someone of his sophistication, for example, to trot out the useless old argument that a supernatural soul is disprovable, is ridiculous. He is far too easy on something that is bad for the world, and bad for individuals. (The main reason religion survives nowadays is childhood indoctrination, a form of abuse.)
I want to know what kind of wine pair well with brain meat
I am really disappointed with you Sir. as a Muslim all these Questions have Answers Crystal clear In Holy Quran !!!! ... Even these People in front of you are Christians but they deserve to know the truth ... to Every Educated pure heart Person wants to know truth about Purpose of Our Existence Go to Holy Quran and Read these chapters ((Al-A'raf Sura Verse 172 )) (( Adh-Dhariyat Sura Verse 56-57)) ((Al-Baqarah Verse 30-39)) (( Qaf Sura Verse 16-35)) and so many other Great evidences
Talk with Jordan Peterson!
In my opinion, Jordan Peterson is an actual intellectual, it would be an unfair advantage.
How Aslan speak about "kemaksiatan" ?!
Let me ask this question..if you travel to another country with your US Passport or wherever you are from. Do you change your name based where you are going? or you will use your name on your passport to legally identify yourself? So, since when did the Messiah change his identity as a Jew into somebody else? Whoever changed his name or identity does not make it legitimate or acceptable to say that "Jesus" is the same as originally described in the Hebrew Scriptures. People can simulate their preferences ( free will) to make a religion out of it thinking of him as "God" or "God incarnate" which is nothing but a doctrine totally against what the followers of the Messiah taught to his audience .....needless to say, it's not the same Messiah as the original Hebrew Messiah in the Scriptures whose purpose was to save his people- the Israelites as the "lost sheep" Northern tribes of Israel. Matthew 15:24 and Matthew 10:5,6 . If the world has labeled "Jesus" as the Hebrew Messiah, that's like somebody stealing your passport and robbing your identity. it's called identity theft. So, Satan ( the Creator's enemy) used the Hebrew Messiah true identity disguised to counterfeit his identity to mislead the whole world using Budda or any other deity crucified etc.
Islam is not the religion of forefathers. Zoroastrianism is mr. scholar.
You forget to mention existense of Zinns before the creation of first humans in the world. Zinns were liable for the cave drawings and yet it exists !!
Shut up
Reza a Taqyiia fool
If the god of the bible had been portrayed as a king instead of a God , he would be remembered as the most evil, mass murdering, tyrannical dictator of all time! Christians give the bible god a free pass because, they say, he is god the creator. I don't see the difference whether man or god. If his actions were evil or immoral, as the bible states, then he'd be just as guilty of being evil as any human committing the same deeds
The very definition of word salad. B.S. White noise.
The world is flat.
Who said that...?
Oxymoron! He talks about how he was a Muslim, then goes on about how his parents were skeptics and “atheist”! He claims a thesis and goes on and debunks it in the next sentence! Who is this guy 🙄🙄
Its not like that his mom was Muslim who became Christian in his teens
Reza speaks a lot but says very little.
Reza Aslan is so insincere though what's amazing is his ability to dupe those who don't have an in depth (much less insider's pov) understanding of the topics he claims such expertise over.
Any Christian who watches his stuff (I don't recommend it though!) will, if anything, be stronger in their faith afterwards, if only because he gives such wild confirmation about what the Bible says about us and how easily deceived we all are by people just like himself! It's almost like he's a Christian agent in disguise.
One thing that's somewhat telling is how if you watch multiple talks of his even years apart, he tells his background story in almost the exact same words each time, he's got it down to a script. So he participated in American evangelical subculture, so what? To me as a Christian, what is even more telling is how clear it is that he never really understood the Bible much less the God of the Bible. It's so absurd I just have to laugh instead of getting mad about it. I had to stop watching this a few minutes in, because in the first minute or two he tells us Christianity (and Islam and Judaism) is "human-centric"! I thought what the world can't stand about us is how unapologetically in love with God we are! We are literally obsessed with becoming more God-centric and less us-centric, that's the whole point of Christianity! Oh man the way this world lifts fools up and parades nonsense as if it were knowledge. My first inclination is to get mad at this stuff but ometimes you just have to laugh at it.
He lost his brain . He read too much , so he does not know what to say anymore. I am a Muslim born man and on 2009 by miracle, i start to know about Jesus, and learn about him.I study a lot of book about god .After i became christian i start to study guran again again to figure out really what is going on .One day Holly spirit told me , i do not need to study guran to find out about GOD, JESUS and truth, So after that days many time Jesus helped me saved me and holly sprite talked to me . And now even if they kill me i will not believe Islam anymore ,The problem reza has is , he never heard from Jesus or Holly sprite to talk to him , so he does not have personal experience from the Holly sprite and Jesus, also he still does not understand Christianity is not religion like Hindu , bud ism, Islam or communism , all of them made by human and Satan but Christianity means walking and living with JESUS GOD .
FYI its not Guran its Quran
@@abubakar31 Originaly in arabic-turkish and persian is Guran not quran, Also get the point , do not play with the words
jafar sarai
It is not ‘Holly sprite’ that will get you to heaven. It is full of sugar. Holly water is the key..
Some say, at least..
@@cinikcynic3087 Sorry ,Probably you are catholic so you do not know the bible. There is no holly water in the new testimony .From old until new testimony it is talking about holly oil , holly olive oil , Unfortunately catholic world went to NO WHERE , and it is difficult to show them truth .If you want to know Jesus and Christianity go keep reading bible and compare bible with catholic world and pop
AMEN BROTHER
These other religions believe that humans can change and resist temptation without the help of the holy spirit
Reza Aslan here is such a farce. Yes he has a degree in religious history or studies, but it is so colored and slanted by his own idiosyncratic spiritual politics as to be nothing but a form of his own personal humanism and ego.
Correct. All ego. Nothing more.
I wonder how many experts think *he* is one. (!)
Why do you say this?
especially sounds so funny that you call yourself a muslim and then your kids one hinduism and one become jewish religion. so your teaching your kids nothing about islam. shame
Well, it's not about imposing something on. Everybody dig their own pit or closes one and move on. You can mould the kids and not the teenagers and adults. It is a choice after u attain the age. And islam doesn't force anyone . It's flexible. Just your choice.
This guy still has credibility?
Yes. Why not
@@gatoblanconzful he’s lied a lot.
@@christiand1244 lied about what specifically. Please show sources if possible
@@Rumblerocket88 I think Sarah Haider's interview on the Rubin Report a few years ago is a good example. Also his slander against Sam Harris.
Interesting stuff, however it’s nothing different from many academics I follow. Not one is perfect in either their writing, speeches, book, blogs, etc...and to think that one person can be flawless in their reporting is being a bit over the top and self assuring depending on your bias. I like Jordan Peterson as well, but their are many inaccuracies in his ideology that I don’t agree with and know just are incorrect. That doesn’t mean he loses all credibility. Just means in that specific issue, he hasn’t read or heard it all. It happens more often than you think. It’s kinda like how humans sometimes suck at being “humane.” Doesn’t make them less human. It shows the imperfections of being human.
Idea: Academics are not immune to imperfection
Suggestion: Hopefully these two get to debate, or Reza responds to critique
Of course the Jesuits turned him from faith in Christ. Pure and undefilled RELIGION is to feed the Fatherless children and widows. Christ is the ONLY way, truth and life. Reza is deceived.
white man speaks with fork tonge you ever beleive christ was the son od god or you dont its your judgment.
He's a fraud.
Reza Aslan here is such a farce. Yes he has a degree in religious history or studies, but it is so colored and slanted by his own idiosyncratic spiritual politics as to be nothing but a form of his own personal humanism and ego.
Bunch of trolls
Why do you say that? He's not selling anything. He has well researched views.
I'm Christian but I'm not bothered by him. I think he's very balanced
@19:24...ahh, the genetic fallacy.
What rambling idiocy is this? A talking head, living within his head.
please reza aslan, please dont call yourself a muslim. because you are 100% against the quran teaching. teaching your kids to worship hinduism of multititute of gods. your calling your self a muslim because to corrupt and destroy the truth of islam and confuse muslims. please you cant be half muslim, enter islamic faith fully or leave it. islam will continue and prosper without you.