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credoconsolans, did you find time to read Carrier's book? If so, I hope you do a review on Amazon, and share your opinion.

I really like this one. Just add the word Holy to title to read, The Holy Bible and right under put your slogan, Believe it or die That’s the legal disclaimer I would think more than appropriate and would be refreshing to see when you open it up on and read on some fly page.

I don’t recall hearing much from the 40+% of them in my schools or in college either, and I’m in the Bible belt. In my church it was a different matter as is many churches. And of course, my rural areas of TX are fairly dominant of conservative theology over the radio channels, as well as quite...

I suppose most of us generally think in probabilities, but probably not as precise as assigning actual specific numbers, which is what Bayes’ Theorem does. It is popular in probability theory and statistics with mathematicians. We often hear the general consensus from NT scholars is that Jesus...

There are a lot more factors going on for someone to believe in something besides just reading it in a book. Some may even be illiterate. It’s difficult for me to find people that believe in all sorts of weird stuff too, despite when there is an overwhelming amount of evidence to the contrary to...

You don’t see how ridiculous that sounds? Theistic evolution is not feasible if you want a young earth. There wouldn’t have been that much time to have gotten the diversity we now have. It’s a little bit more plausible for an older earth to consider theistic evolution for it, but not by much...

Except I wasn’t referring to any god, you were. You can use the god of the gaps if you prefer. Well, polling isn’t an exact science, and I can’t help but feel like many are just parroting what they think they are supposed to say. But it’s still difficult to think that there isn’t a good...

Glad you purchased his book, I’m sure you won’t be the slightest bit disappointed. Yeah, I expected Carrier would catch a lot of flak from Christian apologists on his book, but it’s the mainstream scholars whose opinions are going to matter. Most credible scholars either Christian or atheist...

What believer isn’t a part of that subclass especially when they believe in the supernatural? Believe in that, what other false belief system would they be open too? When you look at poll numbers of Creationism in America about 40% indicate a literal belief in it with them also believing in a...

Certainly believers and nonbelievers have a different set of pragmatic parameters each are working from. What each group considers good evidence is one of the main things that separates believes and non-believers. Believers tend to be more easily swayed by good story telling, power of...

I still read quite a bit from the Secular Web. Not sure why they divided it up. I think Carrier said he put in ten years of research on this book, and it shows. I really enjoyed reading it. To be able to weigh all of the evidence he brings up, one has to retain a lot, or plan on spending...

Which you can find on Amazon. Initial reviews are quite favorable, although it looks like a couple of the reviews and mostly comments are few rabid Christian apologists that have showed up to show their distaste in this book, with some obviously never having read it. I finally finished it...