RE: Paul's Writings Underpin Western Thought
August 1, 2018 at 3:15 pm
(This post was last modified: August 1, 2018 at 3:16 pm by Amarok.)
(August 1, 2018 at 3:05 pm)Jehanne Wrote:He desperate to misrepresent your position and make baseless accusations of bias . And then misrepresents Carrier and shows he has fuck all understanding of his work . Then actually has the balls to declare he's listen or weighed the evidence before deciding. I'm shocked reality didn't collapse into a singularity of bullshit from that statement .(August 1, 2018 at 1:35 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: LOL - Her main argument seems to be, that you should blindly follow the scholarly consensus (although it may seem only when it agrees with her bias).
However Carrier is far from the mainstream consensus. Which puts yourself and Min shit out of luck as well. I'm at least willing to listen to the reasons, and weigh them before deciding that Carrier is a bad historian. With Jeahnne he loses out a priori.
Dr. Richard Carrier advocates a minority hypothesis; so what? With respect to low-level NT criticism, Dr. Carrier's views are completely mainstream.
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