Richard C. Carrier
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December 01, 1969
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Sense and Goodness Without God: A Defense of Metaphysical Naturalism
7 editions
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2005
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Why I Am Not a Christian: Four Conclusive Reasons to Reject the Faith
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2011
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On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt
9 editions
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2014
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Not the Impossible Faith
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2009
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Proving History: Bayes's Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus
6 editions
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2012
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Jesus from Outer Space: What the Earliest Christians Really Believed about Christ
4 editions
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2019
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Hitler Homer Bible Christ: The Historical Papers of Richard Carrier 1995-2013
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2014
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Science Education in the Early Roman Empire
5 editions
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2016
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The Scientist in the Early Roman Empire
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Mussolini’s Army against Greece
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2021
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“If God wants something from me, he would tell me. He wouldn't leave someone else to do this, as if an infinite being were short on time. And he would certainly not leave fallible, sinful humans to deliver an endless plethora of confused and contradictory messages. God would deliver the message himself, directly, to each and every one of us, and with such clarity as the most brilliant being in the universe could accomplish. We would all hear him out and shout "Eureka!" So obvious and well-demonstrated would his message be. It would be spoken to each of us in exactly those terms we would understand. And we would all agree on what that message was.”
― Why I Am Not a Christian: Four Conclusive Reasons to Reject the Faith
― Why I Am Not a Christian: Four Conclusive Reasons to Reject the Faith
“Colonization of the world, more often than not by robbery and warfare, spread Christianity into the Americas and other corners of the earth, just as Islam was spread throughout Asia and Africa. lt is not a coincidence that the two most widespread religions in the world today are the most warlike and intolerant religions in history. Before the rise of Christianity, religious tolerance, including a large degree of religious freedom, was not only custom but in many ways law under the Roman and Persian empires. They conquered for greed and power, rarely for any declared religious reasons, and actually sought to integrate foreign religions into their civilization, rather than seeking to destroy them. People were generally not killed because they practiced a different religion. Indeed, the Christians were persecuted for denying that the popular gods existed — not for following a different religion. In other words, Christians were persecuted for being intolerant.”
― Sense and Goodness Without God: A Defense of Metaphysical Naturalism
― Sense and Goodness Without God: A Defense of Metaphysical Naturalism
“However, though belief on faith alone may be comforting, it is wholly arbitrary and thus does nothing to ensure that you are more correct than anyone else. So it cannot properly be described as knowledge, but rather as a mere wish, a desire that something be true or false, or else it is a naive trust in guesswork or hearsay.”
― Sense and Goodness Without God
― Sense and Goodness Without God
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