Sunday, 21 August 2016

Fox News Appetizers/Reza Aslan

While we await Trump's latest Strategies to take shape and form, let's amuse ourselves with some light entertainment.

It can't always be Megyn and her band of fair-skinned, blonde and leggy sisters, so let's give some "face time" to a less racy Lauren Green for a change.

In her interview of Reza on his book "Zealot" back in July 2013, Lauren asserted Jesus Christ was the founder of Christianity and was puzzled how a Muslim could write a book on Jesus Christ! Reza was quite chivalrous by mildly responding he was equipped as a Scholar of Religion.

Reza with his depth of knowledge could have embarrassed her by pointing out the Romans founded Christianity using a messianic icon of a person named Jesus from Nazareth, but he didn't.

Amongst the conquered lands of the Roman Empire, the Jews proved too troublesome to rule as they were emboldened and strongly motivated by their millennia old theology that was powerful in promoting uprisings.

Harsh physical controls could not subdue the Jews and the Romans were made to push the envelope of conquest with a spark of ingenuity of using mind control. They knew they had to outmatch Judaism with a more compelling theology rooted in Judaism. Hence, the ground work was meticulously hatched by the Flavian Dynasty of the Romans at the 1st century CE, ripen in time to be reaped by Emperor Constantine in the 4th century CE, 

In this sense the Romans were advanced spiritually by the people they ruled. Just as the Mongols and Manchus were culturally propelled to new heights by the Chinese they ruled over.

Also, Lauren would be less perplexed had she known that Karen Armstrong, a Catholic Nun trained in a Convent in her later life wrote volumes with high intellectual integrity on Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and other religions.

Fox Appetizers should make more strenuous efforts to be more than just appetizing to the eyes only! This was where Ailes dropped the ball.