61.6 million Trump voters just extinguished Western civilization, according to Stephen Prothero of Boston University

Wow, was that easy or WHAT?!

You can push the apocalyptic extremism out of a religion, and Oops!, it pops up somewhere else, as here in America's crummiest newspaper from the mind of a latter day Puritan:

"Americans like myself who hold dear such values as free speech, freedom of the press and freedom of religion — values already under attack in Russia, Turkey, France and India — must turn to citizens in Europe, Asia and elsewhere to keep the beacon burning that American voters extinguished Nov. 8. At least for now, the United States is no longer the foremost defender of Western civilization. It is its greatest threat."

Stephen Prothero doesn't know the meaning of pluralism, but teaches at a "university"

Here in The Wall Street Journal of all places:

"No doubt Christians should strive to understand the Islamic faith fully, and vice versa. But pretend pluralism, feigning that all or most religious traditions hinge on the same truth, is no solution for the squabble at Wheaton or anywhere else."

Religious pluralism has nothing to do with hinging "on the same truth", but rather with competing religions coexisting in a society, as in a pluralistic society where competing ideas coexist, such as for example at a university, where the main idea is that a whole universe of competing ideas is supposed to be available to the student.

Presumably Boston University pays its professors to understand the meaning of that word, evocative as it is of the very mission of universities, but in this case it may wish to ask for its money back before the students do.

Stephen Prothero Asks The Most Important Question About Reza Aslan's Book ZEALOT

Here in The Washington Post:

What are we to make of Jesus’s apparent lack of interest in doing anything practical whatsoever to prepare for holy war? If he has come to fight for “a real kingdom, with an actual king,” where are his soldiers and their weapons? And why no battle plan?

The reason this is the most important question about the book is that its answer, which Prothero does not provide, exposes the false choice between a Jesus who is a political revolutionary, the argument of Aslan's book, and a Jesus who is the founder of a spiritual religion whose kingdom is not of this world, the argument of most Christians and especially of the Fourth Gospel.

As an apocalyptic preacher, Jesus' thorough-going eschatology fully expected God to handle the practical details of the holy war to end all holy wars, a war which was coming imminently, when the Son of Man would descend from heaven with a shout and the angels of God would gather up the wicked in bundles and cast them into the eternal flames, and God would install his holy one on the throne of God in a heavenly Jerusalem descended from heaven to earth on the very spot where the temple of Herod once stood, its stones not left one upon another.

The framework for this interpretation was first erected by Albert Schweitzer about a century ago, and while a fair number of New Testament scholars continue to build on his work, like James Tabor and Dale Allison, Reza Aslan is not one of them.