The First Century Void

[Minimalist]

No, asswipe.  I'm done playing games with an ignorant shit like you.  Go do your own research or continue to be a dumbfuck jesus freak.  What part of "fuck off" gave you the most trouble.

Moving on...on Page 354 Carrier notes:

For it is much easier to invent a man than to invent a famous man, yet Jesus is depicted as
incredibly famous in the Gospels. But if he were so famous, then the silence of other writers and historians about him,
indeed the lack of any literature about him being generated by any of the thousands of contemporaries
impressed or intrigued by his fame (see the survey again in §2), is all but impossible. That is, extremely improbable.
The consequent probability of this pervasive and thorough silence on the hypothesis that Jesus actually
was that famous (much less that any of the incredibly famous events associated with him in the Gospels actually occurred-
and I gave only a select list of examples) i s extremely small.

So if the historicist wishes to maintain Jesus was really that famous. then historicity is refuted by the complete silence of all other literate persons
of that age and region and of all who wrote about that region or about any famous persons and events like those. The consequent probability of
that evidence (of silence) is so small that it guarantees historicity will also have a very small posterior probability, and must therefore be rejected as
improbable. Just as for the darkening of the sun, as I have demonstrated before: we can be sure that never happened, because if it did, someone
would have mentioned it (other than just the Synoptic Gospels).

But they do not.  No 3 hour darkness covering the earth, no earthquakes, no temple veil being split, no dead jews climbing out of their graves and wandering around the city, not a fucking word.  "Jesus" is like Rhett Butler.  A fictional character inserted into an actual historical setting which never fucking heard of him!

The above conclusion is mine, not Carrier's.