RE: Richard Carrier trashes Bart Ehrman's book on the Historical Jesus.
April 22, 2012 at 1:51 am
(This post was last modified: April 22, 2012 at 2:09 am by radorth.)
(April 20, 2012 at 9:46 pm)Minimalist Wrote: (Looks like Bart was trying to make up to the fundies.....)
http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/archives/1026
Quote:Ehrman on Jesus: A Failure of Facts and Logic
April 19, 2012 at 9:47 pm Richard Carrier
Having completed and fully annotated Ehrman’s new book Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth (Harper 2012), I can officially say it is filled with factual errors, logical fallacies, and badly worded arguments. Moreover, it completely fails at its one explicit task: to effectively critique the arguments for Jesus being a mythical person. Lousy with errors and failing even at the one useful thing it could have done, this is not a book I can recommend.
The review is long but worthwhile.
It's interesting they are at loggerheads, but I don't believe much of what either says. Neither of them has any evidence to prove Jesus didn't exist. There isn't anything to argue about, although atheists assume there is.There is no evidence of fraud, although there is evidence of hearsay, e.g not one single early Christian apostate then said a word. Thousands of people who knew it was a fraud must have somehow managed to collude, atheists are forced to believe. All they can do is cast doubt to doubters and sell books. Unless Carrier has changed in the five years since I read him, he doesn't have business critiquing anybody . His own logic is atrocious and he could hardly remember what argument he used yesterday.