Reza Aslan’s Viral Fox News Interview Reveals More Than Just Christian Privilege
…y meet is a self-proclaimed expert in religion. What should we make of one commenter’s remark on the Aslan video: “Religion scholar. . . isn’t that an oxymoron?” This presumes that expertise in one’s own religion—or one’s own rejection of it—is earned without pursuing degrees. According to this view, academic training only pushes the budding scholar farther away from “real” Christianity, as Green calls it. And as Aslan found out, the scholar’s “o…
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