RE: Christians - What would you do if it were discovered Jesus never existed?
September 5, 2015 at 2:28 pm
(September 5, 2015 at 12:34 pm)robvalue Wrote: Carrier's arguments in that video I just posted seem really solid to me. He's making a pretty fine case for Jesus actually not existing at all. In comparison, the historical Jesus arguments I have heard are pretty shit and sound just like Christian apologist arguments. They also seem to like throwing insults at Carrier without actually explaining why he is wrong.
His beginning reminds me of my take on this. Before considering the matter, I thought that Jesus must have existed, because that was the general consensus. But when I started looking at the matter, I was shocked at how poor the evidence was in favor of him. And now I am inclined to believe he did not exist (though I honestly do not care if there was some goat fucker upon whom the story was based). Of course, I have not looked into the matter as deeply as Carrier has. In part because I do not really care if Jesus existed or not.
By the way, it is a great video you posted before, though given its length, there will probably only be two or three of us who actually watch it.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
