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Evangelical Pastor: Religious Beliefs Make Objective Study of Jesus Impossible, But Only for Muslims

7/25/2013

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Over the past few days, I’ve been accused of being (a) anti-Christian, (b) anti-Indian (sub-continental), (c) anti-truth, and (d) racist. “I enjoy your blog a lot,” one correspondent wrote. “In fact it is quite entertaining, but it seems to portray all Christians in a bad light. … Not all religious people are zealots as not all science believers are intolerant douche bags towards religion.” I imagine this is the problem with having a blog devoted to the topic of alternative history; by definition, the people whose views I discuss are necessarily the extremists, who—whatever their stripe—are necessarily outside the mainstream.

Therefore I read with interest a Fox News opinion column by the evangelical pastor and syndicated columnist John S. Dickerson blasting Daily Beast writer Reza Aslan’s new book Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth as pseudo-scholarly fraud perpetuated by “a devout Muslim.” Dickerson faults the media for failing to report Aslan’s Muslim beliefs, but Dickerson similarly fails to note that Aslan holds a master’s in theological studies from the Harvard Divinity School and a doctorate in the sociology of religion from UC Santa Barbara. Dickerson’s qualifications are that his father and grandfather were both pastors, at least as far as his biography states.

I wonder if Dickerson similarly jettisons all of “Biblical archaeology” since it is carried out by Christians and Jews, who of course he must admit cannot be fair.

I have a copy of Aslan’s book, and I’ll be looking at it sometime in the near future. What follows is not an endorsement of Dickerson’s claims, only an examination of his choice of arguments. Let’s look at Dickerson’s arguments for why Aslan can’t be trusted. I remind you again: I am not endorsing any of these claims.

His book is not a historian’s report on Jesus. It is an educated Muslim’s opinion about Jesus -- yet the book is being peddled as objective history on national TV and radio. Aslan is not a trained historian. Like tens of thousands of us he has been formally educated in theology and New Testament Greek.

That sounds familiar, doesn’t it? Whom else do we know who makes weird claims about Jesus on TV and radio while pretending they are objective history?

As a sincere man, Aslan’s Muslim beliefs affect his entire life, including his conclusions about Jesus. But this is not being disclosed. “Zealot” is being presented as objective and scholarly history, not as it actually is—an educated Muslim’s opinions about Jesus and the ancient Near East.

Whom else do we know who passes off uneducated, radical opinions as sober scholarship? How many times, though, have we been told that our unnamed friend’s background and beliefs are irrelevant to understanding his claims? Dickerson calls Aslan’s failure to openly praise Muhammad on television as a failure to disclose a deep-seated “conflict of interest,” as though Jesus belonged only to evangelical Christians, and not also to Muslims, Arians, Gnostics, and sundry other groups with differing views.

Many more interviews will come from reporters who simply don’t understand that Reza Aslan has a horse in this race. He is not an objective observer, but, to use his own word, a zealot, with religious motivation to destroy what Western culture has believed about its central figure for hundreds of years.

Yeah, that about describes, from a different ideological framework, the New Age extremists who want to rewrite history to serve their radical agenda, too often focused on 1 Timothy 6:10. I will agree with Dickerson on this, though: The media fail to understand the radical ideologies underlying alternative history, and they treat “controversies” over ancient white explorers, a lost race of Jesus’ American children, or a hidden goddess cult infiltrating our government as amusing distractions, grist for the media mill, falsely balanced against mainstream scholarship as two equal sides of the coin of knowledge.

Let me be blunter: Why should geologist Scott Wolter’s imaginary honorary master’s degree and utter lack of mastery of historiography or archaeology be irrelevant to judging his work while Aslan’s claims are rendered moot by his training in theology rather than historiography? Why should  Giorgio Tsoukalos’s or William Henry’s New Age spirituality be a lodestone guiding us to a better understanding of ancient religion while Aslan’s Islam disqualifies him from researching the historical Jesus?

Here is where I think that we need to step back and understand that there is a difference between the claimant and the claim. Whether Jesus was a radical or the father of a race of goddess-worshippers is a question of fact. But when the facts fail to support a claim, it then becomes useful to examine why particular individuals continue to support ideas in opposition to fact because the question is no longer historical but sociological. In other words, the ancient astronaut hypothesis is a question of fact; why more than a million people a week watch Ancient Aliens is a question of sociology. Dickerson fails to establish that the facts are wrong, so his attack is nothing but an ad hominem, contributing nothing except to foment xenophobia against the outsider.

30 Comments
tubby
7/25/2013 10:06:05 am

Has Dickerson even read Aslan's book? I can't tell from the column... and that kind of bothers me.

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Scott Hamilton
7/25/2013 10:25:29 am

I'm pretty sure he has read it. At least, the bit where he Freudian slips and says the book is a "demolition of the core beliefs that Christianity has taught about Jesus for 2,000 years" certainly implies he read it. (He appears to be admitting the book is correct, or else it couldn't demolish anything.)

Dickerson is mistaken or even lying about two points:

1) Describing Aslan's conclusions as being peculiar to Muslim theology. Islam generally believes Jesus is a blessed prophet, and that he didn't die on the cross -- I don't think either element is in the book. And I'm not that inclined to read the book, just because it sounds like the same thing I've read in a bunch of books by Bart Ehrman, who is by no stretch of the imagination Muslim.

2) Saying that the "liberal media" has been hiding Aslan's religion. In fact on Fresh Air on NPR (the most evil of all the "liberal media" according to FOX News) I'd say almost half of the 40 minute interview Terry Gross had with Aslan was about how his religious beliefs had developed over his life. Frankly, I was bored, for the reason Mr. Colavito states at the end of this column -- it has nothing to do with the whether the book is factually correct or not.

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Scott Hamilton
7/25/2013 10:28:30 am

Anti-Christian, anti-Indian, racist and lying? I've been reading your blog every day, but if you've been accused of all that recently I feel like I've missed some good entries.

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Dave Lewis
7/27/2013 11:33:16 am

I would characterize Jason as "anti-bullshit"

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Tonto
7/25/2013 11:56:09 am

Only sub-continental...good

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charlie
7/25/2013 01:52:09 pm

This Dickerson person is just an example of why one attacks the person when one cannot attack the facts/truth of the work.
If Jason is any sort of racist or bigot, well, the world has truly gone to hell and failed to inform me of the move. Though with what passes as "leadership" in Washington D. C. over the last few decades, I wonder if we had not been in that warm place for a long time already.

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Graham
7/25/2013 02:58:13 pm

Actually the New Agers don't even quote 1 Timothy 6:10 correctly, most of the time they leave off the words "the love of" and remove the second sentence which makes it quite clear what the author meant.

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Tara Jordan
7/25/2013 03:01:13 pm

"Anti-Christian, anti-Indian, racist,anti-truth?". Aww, There is definitely something missing: the antisemitic nasty epithet.We need to discuss world war 2 & Holocaust revisionism.

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Dave Lewis
7/25/2013 04:22:45 pm

So.... nobody called Jason a Nazi yet?

Dave Lewis

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Robin Swope
7/25/2013 04:46:41 pm

Funny, I thought that Aslan's work was mostly framed in modern progressive liberation theology.

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Christopher Randolph
7/26/2013 06:51:19 pm

Part of the awfulness of these clumsy whacks at Islam is the fact that - naturally - Islam is at least as theologically complex as Christianity and the claim that Muslims as a whole believe X Y or Z is as inaccurate as claiming that an unspecified Christian believes X Y or Z.

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The Other J.
7/26/2013 09:47:02 pm

It's such a strangely vague claim he makes -- at least in the quoted bits. Manipulate it a bit, make it a little generic:

"As a sincere man, X’s _____ beliefs affect his entire life, including his conclusions about Jesus. But this is not being disclosed. “Zealot” is being presented as objective and scholarly history, not as it actually is—an educated _____’s opinions about Jesus and the ancient Near East."

That blank could be filled with Catholic, Lutheran, Episcopalian, Mormon, Amish -- you could find the same sort of attack levied within the larger Christian faith, you don't need some big looming Other.

But that's what vague scare claims are often filled with -- the big looming Other you want to vilify while using the vague structure to give the vilification some semblance of justification. That blank could also be communism, fascism, materialism, Atlanteanism, etc.

Maybe another sociological question is why media outlets cultivate and proffer such perspectives. Manufactured conflicts are easier to manage and manipulate than legitimate ones, and better management means better ratings -- maybe that has something to do with it.

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Paul Cargile
7/27/2013 03:05:12 am

Salman Rushdie
Theo Van Gogh
Kurt Westergaard
Trek Parker and Matt Stone
Molly Norris

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Tara Jordan
7/27/2013 04:58:42 am

Paul,Don't even think about trying to politicize this blog with this Islamophobic garbage.
Like most Americans you probably discovered the word "Muslims" on September 2001.

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Paul Cargile
7/27/2013 05:44:23 am

I heard about Muslim in the 70s during the fuel crisis. OPEC was mentioned quite a bit on the news back then.

Tara Jordan
7/27/2013 06:38:22 am

It seems like you have a major fixation on Islam.I am not patronizing you, but have you met any Muslims?.Do you have Muslim friends or acquaintances?.Have you ever visited or lived in a Muslim country?.Do you speak Arabic?.Do you even understand that Islam is not monolithic?.

Christopher Randolph
7/27/2013 12:27:03 pm

Paul -

OPEC is/was comprised of a number of countries in different parts of the world which often have little or nothing to do with the Islamic world. Venezuela, Ecuador, Gabon for example.

I notice that most of the people on your little list are still alive. We might compare that with a list of entire countries where we've been killing hundreds to thousands to millions of people who happen to Muslim, and your attitude is easing that along: Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya and so forth.

Paul Cargile
7/28/2013 05:43:51 am

I used to go to the top of the Khober tower I was billeted in to watch the airliners land and to listen to the evening prayer, with the western sky an explosion of vermillion and ochre, and the eastern sky a deep cobalt, with the silver coin of the moon rising above the Persian Gulf, with the smells of the salt breeze from the sea, and the acrid concrete of the rooftop, the sonorous sounds of the prayer and its echoes across the skyline of Dhahran was a magical and otherworldly experience.

Every elevator I step into that has a noticeable rich smell of metal and oil reminds me of the tiny elevators in the Khober condos. I recall the bomb scare from a device seen under an elevator that turned out to be an elevator repairman's tool box. We stood outside in the night air in groups joking.

The air conditioners at Khober Towers had pillows on them to muffle the sound of dripping condensation.

At 120 degrees F, and 100% humidity, the air was an unbearable soup.

We were upset that the British had beer in their compound. I only took one drinking trip to Bahrain; that's a long bridge. The side streets were crowded. Wares from the shops were out on the sidewalk: racks of clothes, trays of perfumes, gold, watches, cameras. Children ran yelling in wild abandon. Cars made slow, patient progress through the throng. Everything was made of cement and metal.

Drivers honk their horns prior to crossing an alley to avoid being T-boned. It also appeared that the larger vehicle had the right of way.

In the heart of Saudi Arabia, the sand looks pink.

They had an art supply store in the mall of Riyadh that rivaled anything I had ever been to prior or since.

I bought a Great White CD in Riyadh in which the album art bikini clad girl on the anchor had been covered over by a black marker. I remember thinking that that was someone's job.

January 17th, 1991, a news crew filmed the initial launch of the air campaign, one was at the jet I was launch assisting (standing by on the halon fire extinguisher, and pulling the chocks from the wheels). The jet had a redball for flight controls, one of my avionics specialties. I plugged my headset into the comm. The problem was cold hydraulics and sorted itself out. I was on television; my grandmother happened to record it. I had just turned 22 at the end of December, a few days after our arrival at Al Kharj.

Gen. Hal Hornburg was our commander. We called the base "Hal's Garage”. CE build a wooden gazebo near the center of the compound. A camel was later tethered to it. Arabs worked the shops and barbered. Arab men are small, and heavily perfumed. There were no vehicle accidents until after speed limits were posted.

The airbase was over a mile away from tent city. One day I and some friends decided to walk to the flight line. Along the way a suburban truck pulled over and a fiftyish white man asked us if we wanted a ride. We accepted and engaged in small talk. We had never seen this person before, but I suspect he was a contractor of some sort. After he let us out at the flight line, a friend commented that "I heard everyone meets God at least once in their lives; I think that was him." we hadn't seen the man afterward, which means nothing in and of itself.

We were shown HUD films of bombing runs. One showed what appeared to be an aircraft hardened shelter--hard to tell details on IR imagery. In the film two blobs are moving away. We know they are men. At impact the screen goes totally white. The men did not make it. A lieutenant from Intel cackled like a witch at this. The rest of us maintainers looked at him in disgust, as if he is insane. Were these men not like us? Aircraft maintainers. They died honorable deaths in defense of their country. We owed them their dignity. It could just as well be us.

An aircrew reported seeing a field of IR hot shapes and bombed them. They were later determined to be sheep.

There is nothing quite like being in a sand storm at night.

We were shown a video of the Highway to Hell, the main road leading out of Kuwait into Iraq. It was a path of destruction to the horizon, a convoy of burnt husks of vehicles and cindered bodies. A Arab man was walking through the carnage collecting AK-47; he must have had about 12 slung across his back. He grinned at the camera. The scene lingered over the partially burnt body of an soldier. It appears these men were killed in retreat. From what I understand, this slaughter was contributed to Bush's decision to end the hostilities. It's nothing you forget, and truly nothing you want to see.

One of my friends in the unit was a Saudi Arabian. His name was Sam. He was good natured, smart, and funny. We all liked him. One day I was sitting around sketching and drew a smiley face with Arab head gear, and instead of a smile, a sucking pucker. I captioned it "Saudi Sucks". He saw me drawing it and asked in a disappointed tone if that is what I thought. I explained my intent wasn't against his homeland, or the people, but

Paul Cargile
7/28/2013 05:45:19 am

. . .
I explained my intent wasn't against his homeland, or the people, but a feeling against the rotation deployments in support of Operation Southern Watch. Another deployment was coming up and no one was happy about it.
Because Sam was literate in Arabic, the military tasked him for special assignment as a translator. The last time I saw him his spirit was broken. He was bitter at the Air Force. I have no idea if was translating documents, or detainees, or both, but I could see its negative impact. What was he learning that could do this to him? Were his loyalties being strained?

Paul Cargile
7/28/2013 07:50:50 am

I forgot to add that we were mercenaries. We were told as much during a briefing in which a colonel informed us that the Saudi's offered to pay each US service member in theater a nice sum of money. Cheers went up in the hanger. Then we were told that Pres. Bush declined the offer. We groaned.

Christopher Randolph
7/28/2013 09:39:24 am

Is there a point to pasting in all of this? At least two of the regular commenters on this blog including me have personal experience in the Gulf. In my case it was not in the military, which is no way to inhabit a place and actually learn anything about the people you're either occupying or bolstering the regime they live under.

Paul Cargile
7/29/2013 02:34:50 am

Tara asked.

And I agree.I don't consider myself to be an expert on Islam, or the Middle East and I'm aware that I have experiences that bias my opinions. Since the summer of 1990, tens of thousands of Americans have been to the Middle East, each person with his or her experiences, some shared, some not. So, no, I don't think one person's experiences in the Middle East is any more significant than another's.

Christopher Randolph
7/29/2013 03:49:41 am

Why the 1990s? Even in the case of Saudi alone the history of Saudi Aramco goes back to the 1920s. I think you've picked that timeframe because that's when you're aware of conflict between the US and some actors in the region. In any event there have been hundreds of thousands if not in excess of a million Americans in the Gulf area alone, and the majority of them trained to think of the native population as enemies.

I don't know why you think living on a military base in Saudi Arabia is a good means of learning about the entire region. I can think of few things that would be a more atypical experience.

Paul Cargile
7/29/2013 09:03:07 am

"Why the 1990s? Even in the case of Saudi alone the history of Saudi Aramco goes back to the 1920s. I think you've picked that timeframe because that's when you're aware of conflict between the US and some actors in the region."

I deduce that after 1990, because of war more than the usual amount of Westerners arrived and departed into the region than would have otherwise been there.

"I don't know why you think living on a military base in Saudi Arabia is a good means of learning about the entire region."

I don't know why you think that I think that. That was part of my experience in shaping my opinions, but so too has online research and reading objective books and articles.

I don't want to bog Jason's blog down with this discussion; I can be reached at pscargile@gmail.com

Tara Jordan
7/29/2013 02:02:31 pm


Paul Cargile.
"I'm aware that I have experiences that bias my opinions...".

We may disagree on many issues , but I can only respect someone who has the intellectual integrity to admit his own bias.

Dave Lewis
7/27/2013 12:13:59 pm

Here are a few quotes from Aslan's Author's Notes....

"When I was fifteen years old, I found Jesus."

"For a kid raised in a motley family of lukewarm Muslims and exuberant atheists, this was truly the greatest story ever told. Never before had I felt so intimately the pull of God. In Iran, the place of my birth, I was Muslim in much the way I was Persian. My religion and my ethnicity were mutual and linked. Like most people born into a religious tradition, my faith was as familiar to me as my skin, and just as disregardable. After the Iranian revolution forced my family to flee our home, religion in general, and Islam in particular, became taboo in our household. Islam was shorthand for everything we had lost to the mullahs who now ruled Iran. My mother still prayed when no one was looking, and you could still find a stray Quran or two hidden in a closet or a drawer somewhere. But, for the most part, our lives were scrubbed of all trace of God."

"The moment I returned home from camp, I began eagerly to share the good news of Jesus Christ with my friends and family, my neighbors and classmates, with people I’d just met and with strangers on the street: those who heard it gladly, and those who threw it back in my face. Yet something unexpected happened in my quest to save the souls of the world. The more I probed the Bible to arm myself against the doubts of unbelievers, the more distance I discovered between the Jesus of the gospels and the Jesus of history—between Jesus the Christ and Jesus of Nazareth. In college, where I began my formal study of the history of religions, that initial discomfort soon ballooned into full-blown doubts of my own."

"The bedrock of evangelical Christianity, at least as it was taught to me, is the unconditional belief that every word of the Bible is God-breathed and true, literal and inerrant. The sudden realization that this belief is patently and irrefutably false, that the Bible is replete with the most blatant and obvious errors and contradictions—just as one would expect from a document written by hundreds of hands across thousands of years—left me confused and spiritually unmoored. And so, like many people in my situation, I angrily discarded my faith as if it were a costly forgery I had been duped into buying. I began to rethink the faith and culture of my forefathers, finding in them as an adult a deeper, more intimate familiarity than I ever had as a child, the kind that comes from reconnecting with an old friend after many years apart.

Meanwhile, I continued my academic work in religious studies, delving back into the Bible not as an unquestioning believer but as an inquisitive scholar. No longer chained to the assumption that the stories I read were literally true, I became aware of a more meaningful truth in the text, a truth intentionally detached from the exigencies of history. Ironically, the more I learned about the life of the historical Jesus, the turbulent world in which he lived, and the brutality of the Roman occupation that he defied, the more I was drawn to him. Indeed, the Jewish peasant and revolutionary who challenged the rule of the most powerful empire the world had ever known and lost became so much more real to me than the detached, unearthly being I had been introduced to in church.

Today, I can confidently say that two decades of rigorous academic research into the origins of Christianity has made me a more genuinely committed disciple of Jesus of Nazareth than I ever was of Jesus Christ. My hope with this book is to spread the good news of the Jesus of history with the same fervor that I once applied to spreading the story of the Christ."

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Dave Lewis
7/27/2013 12:29:25 pm

Based on the Author's Note Aslan sounds like a liberal Christian.

Earlier today while reading Marcus Borg's "Reading the Bible Again for the First Time" I ran across a quotation I like....

A fundamentalist has been defined as "an evangelical who is angry about something." (Attributed to Jerry Falwell by George M. Marsden)

Dickenson seems to fit that definition of a fundamentalist.

Dave Lewis

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Paul Cargile
7/28/2013 03:32:23 am

How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror
No god but God: The Origins, Evolutution, and Future of Islam
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

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Cathleen Anderson
7/28/2013 03:58:10 am

From Gawker via Fox News:

http://gawker.com/fox-news-amazed-that-a-bible-scholar-who-is-muslim-wr-940450217?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&utm_source=gawker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

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Christopher Randolph
7/28/2013 04:50:32 am

Has anyone ever heard Jews express shock that Christians might study what Christians call the Old Testament?

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