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RE: Richard Carrier trashes Bart Ehrman's book on the Historical Jesus.
April 22, 2012 at 2:01 am
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RE: Richard Carrier trashes Bart Ehrman's book on the Historical Jesus.
April 22, 2012 at 2:14 am
Quote:And why he goes after soft targets like Acharya S (DM Murdock) when trashing mythicists.
Acharya makes it easy, unfortunately.
Quote:Neither of them has any evidence to prove Jesus didn't exist.
Hey, idiot, you can't prove that the FSM "doesn't exist." The issue is can you prove that your godboy is anything more than a bathtub fart released one day to bubble to the surface? Just because you want to believe in fairy tales does not make them true.
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RE: Richard Carrier trashes Bart Ehrman's book on the Historical Jesus.
April 22, 2012 at 2:19 am
(April 22, 2012 at 2:14 am)Minimalist Wrote: Quote:And why he goes after soft targets like Acharya S (DM Murdock) when trashing mythicists.
Acharya makes it easy, unfortunately.
I spoke to her a few times and her views tend far into the conspiracy side of things. That is why she only surrounds herself with ass kissers. To be honest, I wouldn't trust a cookbook she wrote nor would I feel safe leaving her unsupervised around children lest she corrupt their minds.
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RE: Richard Carrier trashes Bart Ehrman's book on the Historical Jesus.
April 22, 2012 at 11:29 am
Quote:I spoke to her a few times and her views tend far into the conspiracy side of things.
Agreed. Conspiracy nuts are a unique breed.
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RE: Richard Carrier trashes Bart Ehrman's book on the Historical Jesus.
April 26, 2012 at 6:19 pm
And now Ken Humphreys works Ehrman over.
http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/ehrman.html
Quote:Ehrman, peerless scholar of New Testament texts, has dragged himself away from more favoured concerns to draw a line in the sand on the question of Jesus. No, he is NOT a mythicist himself, the direction towards which all his books pointed and as many of his fans were beginning to think. "No, no – Jesus most certainly existed" – a mantra Ehrman repeats endlessly – and was, (Christians please note), "the most important figure in the history of Western civilisation" – a statement scarcely true if, as Ehrman argues, the "man" was a parochial and deluded doom merchant, hostile to the family and fond of prostitutes and drink who was summarily executed after a two-minute trial before Pilate. The professor from North Carolina provides cold comfort for any of his Christian fans and his arrogant dismissal of the entire corpus of mythicist scholarship will cost him supporters elsewhere.
The positive side to all this is that Bart – an accredited scholar, as they say – has been compelled to acknowledge that the very existence of Jesus is "one of the most pressing questions in the history of religion" and deserving of investigation. Mythicism, warns Ehrman darkly, is "seeping into the popular consciousness at an alarming rate."
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RE: Richard Carrier trashes Bart Ehrman's book on the Historical Jesus.
April 26, 2012 at 9:42 pm
Good to see Ken still hard at it!
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RE: Richard Carrier trashes Bart Ehrman's book on the Historical Jesus.
April 26, 2012 at 10:07 pm
Yep...the enemy of all things holey.
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RE: Richard Carrier trashes Bart Ehrman's book on the Historical Jesus.
May 1, 2012 at 7:01 pm
(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.
Thank you so much for posting this. I am very interested to read Ehrman's book and reply to Carrier.
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RE: Richard Carrier trashes Bart Ehrman's book on the Historical Jesus.
May 1, 2012 at 9:02 pm
(May 1, 2012 at 7:01 pm)michaelsherlock Wrote: Thank you so much for posting this. I am very interested to read Ehrman's book and reply to Carrier.
http://ehrmanblog.org/fuller-reply-to-richard-carrier/
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RE: Richard Carrier trashes Bart Ehrman's book on the Historical Jesus.
May 2, 2012 at 12:09 am
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(April 22, 2012 at 2:14 am)Minimalist Wrote: Quote:And why he goes after soft targets like Acharya S (DM Murdock) when trashing mythicists.
Quote:Acharya makes it easy, unfortunately.
You should read 'Christ in Egypt' it is quite well done.
(May 1, 2012 at 9:02 pm)popeyespappy Wrote: [quote='michaelsherlock' pid='279822' dateline='1335913264']
Thank you so much for posting this. I am very interested to read Ehrman's book and reply to Carrier.
http://ehrmanblog.org/fuller-reply-to-richard-carrier/
Great read. Thanks for that.
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