The Selfish Meme Strikes Back: New Atheism’s Failed Crusade
I am in the middle of going back through all of my blog posts over these past ten years and self-publishing various collections from all my work. Last month, I ...
Tag: Richard Carrier
“Goodbye Jesus”–A Review/Analysis of Tim Sledge’s Book (Part 5: The Heart of the Problem…for Ex-Evangelicals and American Evangelicalism Alike)
Here in this final installment of my look at Tim Sledge’s book, Goodbye Jesus, I want to discuss what I feel is the deeper, underlying issue, not only to what S...
Richard Carrier and the Mythical Jesus (Part 4): Mythical Carriers and Ark Encounters–How Richard Carrier and Ken Ham are the Captains of the Same Titanic
Up until about three weeks ago, I really hadn’t paid much attention to Richard Carrier and the “mythicist movement.” I knew a little bit about his claims, but s...
Richard Carrier and the Mythical Jesus (Part 3): The Mythicist Argument–Welcome to Bizarro World (i.e. A Lesson on How Not To Interpret the Bible)
We now come to the third post of my series on Richard Carrier and the “mythicist movement” which claims there was no historical person named Jesus, and that the...
Richard Carrier and the Mythical Jesus (Part 2): Sophomoric Silliness in Bible Reading
In my last post, I began to look at Richard Carrier’s claims that Jesus probably never existed and that the Gospels were, in fact, a myth. I noted that several ...