This is just the appeal to majority fallacy. Mythicism is a minority opinion among scholars but that doesn't mean it's wrong. There could be a whole host of alternative reasons why it's not held by the majority such as bias, politics, lack of understanding, etc. And mythicism is becoming more open to discussion and consideration now in academic circles than it used to.
Mythicism isn't crucial to atheism anyway. Jesus could have existed and we'd still have no reason to believe him to be God. It's a shame that this question of whether Jesus existed is such a polarizing issue among supposedly secular and objective scholars. It's just a historical theory. There's no need on the part of the majority scholars for emotionally charged attacks on scholarly mythicists.
Mythicism isn't crucial to atheism anyway. Jesus could have existed and we'd still have no reason to believe him to be God. It's a shame that this question of whether Jesus existed is such a polarizing issue among supposedly secular and objective scholars. It's just a historical theory. There's no need on the part of the majority scholars for emotionally charged attacks on scholarly mythicists.
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
