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Reza Aslan | PBD Podcast | Ep. 222

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How Old Were You the First Time You Read the Communist Manifesto?

"I was seven when my country was handed over to religious fanatics," he says. "It instilled in me at a very young age this deep fascination with religion and the power that religion has to transform a society for good and for bad" The author's parents were famous actors in Iran, which is another way of saying prostitute. His mother would pray every once in a while; his father didn't like her doing so.

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