[H]istoricity is a bankrupt paradigm: they never have a sound or valid argument for it. Instead, they kneejerk oppose it emotionally, doing no work to even understand the peer reviewed studies questioning it (they rarely even bother reading them, and typically don’t even know what they argue), and then botch facts and even logic when they try to insist mythicists are the ones who don’t know what they are doing. That would be true for many amateur mythicists. But it’s not true for professional, peer-reviewed mythicists. Yet conflating the two is also a typical fallacy critics employ—Matt Kovacs now included (whom I believe is the same guy as here or here).
That after ten years this is all they have is now strong evidence that there is no sound defense of the historicity of Jesus. The irony is that these atheists are now acting like Christian apologists: eating their own foot with a misinformed, badly argued traditional position, staking out an emotional rather than a rational argument, and leaning on ad hominem rather than actually checking the facts, while arrogantly claiming the people who actually know what they are talking about (the actual experts who did the actual studies, and thus endeavored to not be misinformed or lean on fallacies) are the ones doing all this. They aren’t. (Nor are they claiming Christianity is false because Jesus didn’t exist, which I suspect is the emotional trigger here.)
--Carrier (12 November 2024). "Matt Kovacs Demonstrates What's Wrong with Atheists Clinging to the Historicity of Jesus". Richard Carrier Blogs.
Statistics: Posted by dbz — Thu Nov 14, 2024 10:46 pm