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December 2014

December 15, 2014

Mythicism as Pseudoscholarship on Wikipedia

David Fitzgerald posted this on Facebook: If a "war is brewing," are you involved in...

December 12, 2014

Mythicism isn’t Skepticism

Josh Rosenau wrote a piece for NCSE, "Standing up for Skepticism." Much of what it...

December 11, 2014

Parallelomania and Mythicist Flood Stories

It struck me recently that the way many mythicists view Jesus in relation to other...

December 08, 2014

Jesus and Santa: Comparing Fundamentalist and Mythicist Parallelomania

Stuff Fundies Like shared this bit of Christian polemic against Satan...I mean, Santa: (If you...

December 06, 2014

Initiation into the Mysteries

Jim Spinti drew attention to a new book by Jan Bremmer, Initiation into the Mysteries of...

December 05, 2014

Ephesians 4:21 and Mythicism

Mythicism claims that the lack of details about Jesus in the epistles are an indication that...

December 04, 2014

Paul’s Human Jesus

In 1 Corinthians 15, Paul makes a contrast between two human beings, Adam and Jesus....

December 03, 2014

Science Denial Mad Libs

Also note how well this works: The scholarly consensus regarding the historical Jesus leaves something...

November 2014

November 21, 2014

Richard Carrier and Illiterate Country Hicks

As readers of this blog probably know, I wrote a short and focused review of one...

November 03, 2014

Mythicism and the Teacher of Righteousness

A comment was left here recently by a mythicist, which asked why, if there was a...

October 2014

October 29, 2014

Did Jesus Die in Outer Space?

Over the past several weeks I've been reading Richard Carrier's book, On the Historicity of...

October 21, 2014

Mythicism’s Methodological Mess

It is funny that some mythicists think that, in pointing out that there are lots...

October 09, 2014

Texts as Symptoms

Jonathan Bernier has made a nice analogy between illnesses and historical events - more specifically between tumors...

October 06, 2014

Moss and Baden on the Lastest Mythicist Nonsense

Via Candida Moss, I learned that she and Joel Baden have responded to - and...

September 2014

September 26, 2014

Defining Pseudoscholarship

Scholarship involves the building of consensus and the challenging of thereof, and so it is...

September 24, 2014

Mythicism’s Missing Middle

I remember the powerful ending of the movie The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, in...

September 23, 2014

The Jesus Birther Movement

I recently had my attention drawn to a rather bizarre web page, connected with the "Jesus...

September 22, 2014

Do Your Own “Research”

Open Parachute shared these three images, and I thought I'd pass them along, given their relevance...

September 13, 2014

A Pre-Christian Dying Messiah?

Ryan Covington has posted on his blog about a subject we also discussed here, namely...

September 08, 2014

Creationism, Mythicism, and University Conspiracies

Creationism says: universities are so much under the grip of atheism that creationism cannot get...

September 07, 2014

Shame on Jerry Coyne

In a comment on his blog, Jerry Coyne responded to my recent post by quoting...

September 06, 2014

Does Christianity Disprove Mythicism?

Jerry Coyne has been very candid about the anti-religious motivation that leads him and other...

September 05, 2014

Neil Carter on the Historicity of Jesus

Neil Carter is concerned about the widespread rejection of a mainstream academic field by fellow atheists....

September 02, 2014

The Myth of Mythicism’s Newness

The year before his book on the subject was published, Shirley Jackson Case wrote an...

September 01, 2014

Myth of the Gaps

Mythicism doesn't account for gaps in what Paul writes better than mainstream scholarship does. It...

August 2014

August 30, 2014

Valerie Tarico’s Historical Denialism

In a recent online article, Valerie Tarico suggests that "a growing number of scholars" are...

August 29, 2014

The Carrier Train Wreck Continues

Richard Carrier is continuing to respond at great length to every review of his book, whether...

August 20, 2014

Criticism of Criteria

On his new blog, James Crossley has taken a critical look at the traditional criteria...

August 11, 2014

Is Mythicism an Ebola-Like Virus?

Jonathan Bernier wrote a blog post about how people reacted to an instance of "Ebola-like...

August 05, 2014

The Best Thesis Defense

I smiled when I saw the above XKCD cartoon on Facebook. But from a more...

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