Richard Carrier and Jesus Mythicists

[pevaquark (Matthew Pevarnik)]

This was a nice thread that outlines some of the claims:

New Atheism has a Fringe History problem

New Atheists quite rightly denounce Fundamentalist Christians for promoting junk science, but whilst they like to parade themselves as ‘champions of reason and skepticism’ to the point of cliché, this is not always the case. As part of their crusade to undermine the basis of Christianity they often promote fringe theories regarding the origins of the bible which have long been abandoned by the mainstream (and for good reason), often (I highly suspect) not because the evidence supports this concl…

Was a nice thing to have the blogger of History for Atheists @TimONeill pop his head in too. I’d recommend reading his blog and material.