Richard Ascough, professor of religious studies at Queen\u2019s University, told me that, \u201cFrom what I can see, Aslan accepts as historical the passages that fit his construction of Jesus and discards the ones that don\u2019t, which results in a book that is historically suspect, as are most other [Jesus] books that have gone before it.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n
Prof. [Reza] Aslan told The Washington Post that the criticism came from his having a foot in both creative writing and religion. \u201cI like to go back and forth,\u201d\u009d he acknowledged….He might as well have said, \u201cWelcome to the bricolage of life!\u201d\u009d Bricolage is that cultural trend to create a self-satisfying mosaic of our interests….Aslan is now a Muslim, but certainly a hard-core self-definer, inventing his own boundaries. \u201cIt\u2019s not that I think Islam is correct and Christianity is incorrect,\u201d\u009d he told the Post. \u201cIt\u2019s that all religions are nothing more than a language made up of symbols and metaphors to help an individual explain faith.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n