Do you hold to Carrier's thesis or Doherty's version or do you have a variant of your own? Could you provide a brief resume of what your view is on the origin of Christianity. I would say I'm fairly close to Carrier. I'll outline my basic theory, a lot of this is speculation and I'm not at all sure...

Bayes theorem is a rather tedious method of doing history and useful for insomniacs or those who wish to deceive themselves that their biases are 'scientifically' supported. https://www.scribd.com/doc/305750452/Richard-Carrier-s-On-the-Historicity-of-Jesus Oh, btw, didn't notice this in your link d...

It's problematic to say that Jesus wasn't replacing the law when he also states up front that he is founding his own church. I disagree. My reading of Raglan is that he is not talking about the hero inspiring a new philosophy or somesuch. He is talking about the hero being said to have been the aut...

I don't claim to be an expert on Bayes theorem D.B. but I notice that many who are expert are not impressed with Carrier's use of this to "prove history" as he puts it. He was totally refuted by cosmologist Luke Barnes in relation to fine tuning and his misuse of probabilties there. I'm n...

I'm a bit confused about your view here. If you say that he (Jesus) started out as a teacher or messenger,then he must have been a real historical person. No. This is a very common mistake among people defending historicity. They think that if someone is a teacher, or is made of flesh, or born of a...

I was obviously being satirical about the ridiculous and unwarranted acclaim some mythicists pour on Carrier's absurd thesis, which uncritical support resembles an emotional rather than rational support of Carrier and his thesis. http://www.rightreason.org/2012/does-richard-carrier-exist/ The probl...

Anyone who could seriously compare the historicity of Jesus and Alexander has rocks in their head. With that attitude you are disqualifying perhaps 99% of all the experts on this subject. Now, I happen not to be in that group, which you would know if you read what I wrote before going into insult m...

Why don’t you stop right here and tell us what it is you believe about Jesus Christ. As I wrote on my blog years ago, I'm about 90% certain that Jesus never existed as an historical person. Most likely, he started out as a teacher or messenger whom influential leaders in the proto-Christian sect cl...

I was asked to respond to this post, even though it is old. First, about Raglan's ranking of Alexander. Here is everything he wrote about Alexander: "It may be added that although several of the incidents are such as have happened to many historical heroes, yet I have not found an undoubtedly h...