Even America's Top Expert on God Can't Explain Donald Trump

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🗓️ 1 December 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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For the past two decades, Reza Aslan has been studying religions from all over the globe, and talking to people who believe in one God, many Gods, or no God at all. He joins us this week to explain the origins of belief, why faith is ultimately a good thing for society, and how he got fired from CNN for calling Donald Trump a “piece of s**t.” (A spokesperson for CNN declined to comment on Aslan’s depiction of his dismissal.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right. I think we're recording. So we should just tell everyone listening
0:05.8	that it's not Reza-asslands fault, that the lawnmowers and blowers are outside they will be done momentarily we hope
0:15.3	actually those guys just follow me around oh they do everywhere you go wherever I go
0:18.9	there's a blower behind you in a lawnmower three guys with a blower just blowing leaves.
0:25.0	Can you imagine that?
0:26.4	So let's just tell people who you are
0:29.9	and how you got here.
0:31.5	Yeah. Actually, you know what, the first time I ever saw you was, I'm sure the way a lot of people saw
0:39.2	you was on Fox News.
0:41.2	Oh yeah.
0:42.2	What was the yeah. 2011.
0:43.0	2011.
0:44.0	Tell us that segment real quick in 140,
0:47.0	280 characters.
0:48.0	In 280 characters.
0:49.0	The segment that will like essentially one day be stamped on my gravestone.
0:55.6	Yeah, this was you know I wrote this book about the historical Jesus because that's kind of what I do and
1:07.6	it was my first time on Fox believe it or not I had been booked on Fox before but the interview had never happened so you've been booked and you show up and they're like,
1:14.0	yeah, we gotta put Sean Hannity on or something like that.
1:17.0	Worse, way worse than that. They, you know, they do pre-interviews, right?
1:21.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:22.0	Yeah, yeah. Yeah,views and and I've done
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