Yes, Richard Carrier exists
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The extant Richard Carrier |
I've detailed the reasons why the New Testament is not historically reliable in previous posts, like this one, so I'm not going to rehash all that here. Suffice to say that there is absolutely no reason at all to believe that Jesus, as he is described in the Bible, is anything but a myth. Might the myth have been based on a real person? Plausibly, but it's conjectural and irrelevant.
But let's think for two seconds (two seconds longer than the guy who wrote the piece) about what we'd have to fake to fabricate Richard Carrier's existence:
- Birth records
- Medical records
- Testimony from contemporaneous peers (there is no testimony of Jesus from his contemporaries)
- Thousands of photographs, and quite a few videos
- Academic records from preschool all the way through his doctoral education
- Published research
- Public writings
- Marital records
- Tax records
- Eventually, certificates of his death and records of his burial
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