Indeed, Carrier has shown his true colors–his true colors are that of an actual credible scholar who takes pride in their research and tries, with due diligence, to publish work that is solid and sound and reasonable. And he is not afraid to confront scholarship that is anything but sound and reasonable. And while that may not win him friends, it is an admirable quality as so many scholars tend to handle these matters with kid gloves when, in fact, sometimes bad arguments just need a swift kick in the pants. It isn’t my style, but it certainly is Carrier’s. That is okay with me.
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Tom, you deny that you are a mythicist, and that’s all fine and dandy, but I have yet to see you allow that a non-mythicist is ever right or credible. Instead, you consistently and readily defend mythicists and their pseudo-scholarship, even to the point of being blinded to the silliness of it all.
One cannot easily deny their association with a group if they spend all of their time defending the ‘quality’, ‘truth’ claims, or ‘validity’ of said group.
Pick a side, Tom.
Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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Skepticism has sired mythicism and now is trying to deny paternity.
Skepticism also does a good job at siring faith. Mythicism is sired more by conspiracy theory which is the child of paranoid delusion.
Shouldn’t the title be “Fess Up, Tom”? Fess up.