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This entire thread has been wonderful. What a gem! Thank you.

Regarding Carrier, mythicism, and GIGO, I highly recommend spending some time at m Quoting from the blog's "about" page: This blog is for articles, book reviews and critiques relating to “New Atheist Bad History” – the misuse of history and the use of biased, erroneous or distorted pseudo ...

Wow, that was a beautiful post. I do not post here frequently but, on the topic of self-forgiveness, figured I might offer a tidbit. I grew up Mormon but am being baptized at the Episcopal Church during tonight's Easter Vigil. Part of the baptismal vows are: Question Do you renounce Satan and all th...

For so much of our discussion, I have felt that the Carrier skeptics and detractors have done a tremendous job—except for humble insignificant me—demolishing every claim of his that has been introduced here, using the methods of ancient historians. It's as if there are two disputants in front of an...

I'm not sure that's right. It's more like this: say you have a pleasant cup of coffee with Carrier to discuss this. You begin with your respective a priori belief's about the historicity of Jesus. You say, for example, that you are 99.7% sure he existed. Carrier says he only gives a 3.79% chance th...

If I may, as the ankle-biter dog yipping at the heels of the intellectual giants on this thread, I'd like to offer just a couple of thoughts. 1) Any discussion of a Bayesian analysis must include priors for the two universes. Given the context that has been discussed previously in this thread, texts...

Richard Carrier is gag-worthy. His "scholarship" is awful and is routinely lampooned on r/AcademicBiblical for the reasons discussed in this fantastic thread. Larry Hurtado, in several recent posts on his blog, demonstrated the bankruptcy of Carrier's ideas. See here: m m m The mythical Je...

I like Sean Carroll. Thanks for sharing. If you haven't seen it, you'd probably enjoy his interview on Joe Rogan's podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHMSvSqCDKc

Simon, thank you very much for taking the time to write that up.

Really enjoyed your comments, Kish. Add to your observation the fact that the LDS Church keeps people busy, busy, busy doing stuff for the Church, and an active member arguably doesn't even have time to study on their own, ensuring they will remain impoverished. In fact, sticking with the Middle Age...