American Jesus Dept: The chair of the religion department at Boston University and a prolific author , Prothero has a very direct, let's flip this around way of looking at faith from other angles. A more recent book, Religious Literacy observed that, while Americans live in what may be the most religious nation in the developed world, they are still largely ignorant about religion, its history and practices. No flame throwing New Atheist, Stephen Prothero is, still, an opinionated scholar who can remain civil and likeable even when taking on the underlying values of the Dalai Lama, Mahatma Gandhi and the other great religions of the world. A few years ago, for example, Prothero wrote about the Son of God in his book American Jesus , in which he argued that nowhere else on Earth has Christ become such a an icon, such a celebrity, as in the U.S. As
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