five stars

this is what got fox news so riled up the other day--- "the very thought of a muslin who says he is a christian going on making stuff up about jesus"

idiots

aslan's book is one of the best i've read --- as my nephew noted, it is a good "prequel" to closing of the western mind: the rise of faith and the fall of reason

zealot is an amazing piece of work --- anybody interested in the first century origins of christianity should read this book ---