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    Religion vs. Culture

    by REZA ASLAN Aug 01, 2017 3 minutes

    RELIGION COMES IN countless forms, depending either on the soil from which that religion arose or the soil in which it was planted. What we call Christianity in America is not what Guatemalans call Christianity. It’s not what Iraqis call Christianity. What we call Islam in the United States is vastly different from Islam in Iran or Saudi Arabia or Nigeria or Indonesia.

    The notion that religion clashes with a culture is

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