(September 29, 2016 at 4:46 am)robvalue Wrote: The mythicist position, as I understand it, is that there isn't enough evidence to reliably pin the story onto one specific historical figure. It's not an outright statement that nothing happened at all.
No it isn't, and that's where I think a lot of atheists get it wrong. Jesus Mythicism has less support from actual historians than Holocaust Denial. Holocaust deniers use the exact same tactics as mythicists - that is they claim the evidence is insufficient to conclude X, Y, and Z.
Here Ehrman addresses mythicism directly:
https://youtu.be/8bnL-QZWNdg?t=1311
Carrier himself says that himself included there are only 7 bible scholars in the world that doubt the historicity of Jesus.
The mythicist position is that Jesus cannot be shown to be a historical person to the same standard as that applied to other historical people. And that is nonsense - as Ehrman and many other scholars have said, there is in fact more evidence for the historicity of Jesus than there is for almost anyone else from his time period.
For Religion & Health see:[/b][/size] Williams & Sternthal. (2007). Spirituality, religion and health: Evidence and research directions. Med. J. Aust., 186(10), S47-S50. -LINK
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
