Fox, Islam, Jesus ... Fail.

[champ_kind]

I'm still puzzled why all the hot anchor chicks are conservatives instead of moderates or liberals.

have you not seen erin burnett?

 

[Mark2010]

Burnett is a moderate or liberal? I've seen her on CNN; haven't analyzed her political slant enough to know.

 

[JR]

Nobody reads the books when they have the author on.

Well, real journalists do.

No host on CBC television or radio would ever interview an author without reading the book. Nor would any PBS interviewer.

Not reading the book is a giant failure. But Fox's talking heads aren't journalists.

 

[champ_kind]

I'm still puzzled why all the hot anchor chicks are conservatives instead of moderates or liberals.

have you not seen erin burnett?

well, she's definitely not an outspoken conservative. and she played field hockey at williams college, so you tell me

 

[Songbird]

 

[Captain Obvious]

Mark, would you only be happy with teenage girls with cleavage reading the news?

 

[YankeeFan]

Interview with the Times:

“Zealot” argues that the historical Jesus was a Jewish revolutionary interested in overthrowing Roman rule in Palestine, not in establishing a celestial kingdom, and that he would not have understood the idea of being God incarnate. In a recent phone interview, Mr. Aslan discussed the strong reactions to his book, his desire to reach a Christian audience, the difficulty of writing about ancient history and more. Below are edited excerpts from the conversation:

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[YankeeFan]

Jesus the loving shepherd. Bringer of peace and justice. Teacher of universal morals. Jesus the rabbi. Jesus the philosopher. Jesus the apocalyptic prophet. Jesus the Christ of faith.

People have constructed many different Jesuses. For at least two centuries, scholars and popular writers have mined the Christian Gospels to “look behind” them, to create a portrait of Jesus, using purely modern methods: the historical Jesus as opposed to the Christ of faith. In his book “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth,” Reza Aslan follows this long tradition, settling on the hypothesis, also around for hundreds of years, that Jesus was a Jewish zealot, a rebel against Rome and the Romans’ local agents.

Mr. Aslan’s book has been greeted with unwarranted controversy. Some conservatives seem offended by merely the idea that a Muslim scholar would write a book about Jesus. This should be no more controversial than a Christian scholar’s writing a book about Islam or Muhammad. It happens all the time. Nor is Mr. Aslan’s thesis controversial, at least among scholars of early Christianity.

According to Mr. Aslan, Jesus was born in Nazareth and grew up a poor laborer. He was a disciple of John the Baptist until John’s arrest. Like John, Jesus preached the imminent arrival of the kingdom of God, which would be an earthly, political state ruled by God or his anointed, a messiah. Jesus never intended to found a church, much less a new religion. He was loyal to the law of Moses as he interpreted it. Jesus opposed not only the Roman overlords, Mr. Aslan writes, but also their representatives in Palestine: “the Temple priests, the wealthy Jewish aristocracy, the Herodian elite.”

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