I saw a few of Aslan's interviews...interesting stuff -- even the Fox interview.
I don't think "...religion is a method of distilling pure spiritual experience into metaphorical language" goes far enough. The metaphoric language tends to be a sound (and necessary) initial interface to those spiritual experiences. It's the long, slow, disintegration of that initial interface to manageable doctrine, all created by men well removed from the first metaphors (much less that spiritual experiences), that marks the real bullshit clouding organized religion's view of reality.
I haven't read his book yet, but Aslan seems to have done the research to shovel off a lot of that bullshit; and boy are the fundamentalists pissed!
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