I'm sitting here with "How to Win a Cosmic War" right next to me, which I was planning to read after checking out a few videosifts. This short talk is a good intro to his most recent book, which I highly recommend. He not only explains his cosmic war theory, but gives excellent religious history lessons. My brain is not working well enough right now to figure out how to do one of those sift amazon linkie things, but hopefully someone else will come through with that.

And on an unrelated note, Reza Aslan is so cute I just want to grab him and kiss him all over!

great find farhad!
upvote and a tweet for you my friend.
i have read reza aslan's "no god but god" a fantastic book dealing with islam and its current struggle between reformation and fundamentalism stagnation.
i have not read his newer book,i think i need to stop procrastinating.

reza aslan's book "no god-but god" is an incredible narrative on the history of islam,
and islam's current need for reformation.
i cant recommend that book enough.so many in america have NO idea the true nature of islam.history,theology...the book is a very comprehensive and easy to read book.
great vid..thankies!

>> ^xxovercastxx:
I think you meant "Reza Aslan - There is an evangelical cancer in the military"


No. I meant what I titled it. It's the Bill Maher show, and someone on the show is saying there is an evangelical cancer in the military. I was not quoting Bill Maher or I would have put quotation marks around the comment.

I think you meant "Reza Aslan - There is an evangelical cancer in the military"

Reza Aslan seems to be living in a fog of religious apologetics that sees the majority of people with faith as moderate critical thinkers. Everything indicates that this view is false.

@anyprophet,
islam created one of the most egalitarian societies the world had ever known up to that point (500 a.d).while europe was descending into the dark ages,the islamic arab world was blossoming.women had more rights under islam than any other of the world religions at the time.islam encouraged science,learning and the arts.
the islam you see today is fractured and myopic.many of the texts in the quran have been perverted to facilitate agendas that have little to do with islam,but everything to do with regional politics,power and corruption.what americans see of islam is a small fraction,usually slanted,and small in scope.
the majority of muslims in the world are not represented in american media,so americans form a distorted view of islam based on twisted information.
it is not uncommon for religious text,doctrine and dogma to be skewered for selfish reasons.the same has been done with christianity,and also judaism.
if you would like to read about islam to gain a far greater understanding,but do not wish to study the quran,i suggest "no god,but god" by iranian born reza aslan.a very easy to read and highly informative book on islam,and its current struggle with its own reformation.
till next time..peace.

wow...your comments sure have evolved over the passed year.

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Thats is truly fun, and a smart doggy, to boot! He'll make a great film dog. El perro dinero!

Yay! I didn't know they were making sequels. My daughter is reading these right now. We absolutely LOVE Aslan.

I have always been told that Islam specifically forbids reinterpretation of the Quaran (koran?) i.e. its God word and cant be altered in any way. Reza Aslan said (on the Daily show I believe) that this prevents a "Muslim reformation" or modernising of muslim ways (no offense meant to muslims).

I would think that feminist muslims should stop wasting their time and just quit either Islam or feminism.

The opening to Daicon IV, made by Gainax (which at the time was called Daicon Film), is a 4:23 video of beautiful cel animation, comparable to that of 1988's Akira or the 1984 film The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love?. It is no surprise that the opening to a sci-fi convention was anime, as often, back then and still today, otaku in general often were into several "geek" fields of interest at once. Thus, the video has many references, and features the now grown up Daicon III girl fighting a wide selection of creatures from all sorts of science fiction and fantasy movies and novels (appearances include Darth Vader, Eleking from Ultra Seven, the Toho logo, an alien, a Macross VF-1 Valkyrie, a Pern dragon, Aslan, a Klingon battle cruiser, Spider-Man, and a pan across a vast array of hundreds of other characters) as she surfs through the sky on the sword Stormbringer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daicon_4

Whee! Aslan should now get to the front page!