[Max Cow Disease]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

Reza Aslan is a fundamentally dishonest actor. He is an ideologue who is willing to deliberately lie to promulgate what he believes is the correct world view - an "ends justify the means" sort of philosophy. It's frankly pretty annoying that CNN gives him a platform so frequently.

EDIT: which isn't to say that Maher isn't facile and frequently obnoxious. But at least he actually believes what he says he believes.

I agree about Aslan. I've never agreed with his premise that religions are essentially empty vessels with no content, and that the dogmas and doctrines themselves can't affect an individual's worldview or how they act. He's a key contributor to the "any criticism of Islam as a set of ideas is Islamophobia" culture.