(October 24, 2017 at 11:54 am)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:"Jesus was an amalgam of earlier pagan myths, brought together into a mythic figure of a god-man and saviour of a kind found in many cults of the time.” This is referencing the writings of Acharya S, but I believe they are similar to what is being proposed here.
Why don't you read Carrier's book and put down that quack. She's trumpeting the 1875 work of Kersey Graves. If you keep saddling yourself with that kind of shit you'll never learn anything. BTW, the same goes for turn of the century "archaeologists" who were really just preachers with a bible in one hand and a shovel in the other. They went to the ANE to "prove" the bible and, voila! Every stone they picked up was something that moses had pissed on.
Unlike religion, science progresses. Learn to check sources.
How about you give me some insight, which would make me want to read/buy Carriers book.
What is this new information (progress) that you think that I am ignoring? What are specifics, that can be verified in this view, that is more than a strained and distorted comparison as those previous? Give me something to work with here!
You seem to want to focus on the people, but what in this argument you are presenting (as vague as it may be) doesn't apply to what I had posted?
It is said that an argument is what convinces reasonable men and a proof is what it takes to convince even an unreasonable man. - Alexander Vilenkin
If I am shown my error, I will be the first to throw my books into the fire. - Martin Luther
If I am shown my error, I will be the first to throw my books into the fire. - Martin Luther
