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Reza Aslan | PBD Podcast | Ep. 222

PBD Podcast

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Do I Want to Know It?

The Buddha famously said, if you want to strike water, you don't dig six one foot wells. In his case, for a whole host of reasons, my culture, my background, my identity, my comfort, Islam is my six foot well. It's the language that I use to make sense of a thing that is inexpressible. And it's a language that other people understand so I can communicate with them. We can talk about that experience. But to say that I believe in the well is stupid. Those are not things to believe in. They're the thing that points you to the thing to believe in."

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