Richard Carrier - The Hero Savior Analogy

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On Page 514 of On The Historicity of Jesus Carrier quotes this:

As a psychologist once put it (about Paul's letter to fellow congregants in Rome, whom he had not yet met and thus can't have shared his own stories with):

Imagine for a moment that one of your friends writes you a twenty-page
letter passionately wanting to share her excitement about a new teacher.
This letter has only one topic, your friend's new teacher. [But] at the end
of her letter, you still do not know one thing about her teacher. Yet, Paul
presents the central figure of his theology this way . . . . It [seems] impossible
to imagine how Paul could avoid telling one story or parable of--or
fail to note one physical trait or personal quality of-Jesus. 3

Let's see if we can drag the discussion back to the paucity of evidence for the godboy, shall we?

Imagine someone who calls themselves a scholarly historian, and in over 500 pages, this is the highlight that is brought forth from his writing. It's a myth, because Paul didn't report the color of his eyes. Good stuff!

So far, we have two stories from this author, neither of which deals with history, but instead makes up a story and seems to think that is history.... I'm starting to think mythicists is a self description.