Comments on: A Few More Attempts to Rescue Jesus https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/17763 Announcing appearances, publications, and analysis of questions historical, philosophical, and political by author, philosopher, and historian Richard Carrier. Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:12:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Richard Carrier https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/17763#comment-43550 Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:12:03 +0000 https://www.richardcarrier.info/?p=17763#comment-43550 In reply to Etienne.

Lol. You are a fool relying on AI which is universally scientifically proved to be stupid and unreliable.

And now you are trying to defend yourself as an expert by explaining that you know less than a stupid and unreliable AI, and thus are not expert enough to know when it is fooling you.

This is tinfoil hat.

And that you don’t know this indicates to me that you are literally, clinically insane.

I see no point in conversing with a crazy person.

Go sell your crazy somewhere else.

Or get therapy if you have access to it. It sounds like you should have access to a national healthcare system, so you can’t use poverty as an excuse to avoid treatment. Please seek help.

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By: Richard Carrier https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/17763#comment-43548 Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:07:47 +0000 https://www.richardcarrier.info/?p=17763#comment-43548 In reply to Etienne.

This is all crank nonsense. It’s already plainly refuted by the data already presented.

So I am sorry to say, but given this and all your behavior to date, I think you are insane.

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By: Etienne https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/17763#comment-43542 Sat, 14 Mar 2026 21:54:27 +0000 https://www.richardcarrier.info/?p=17763#comment-43542 In reply to Etienne.

“Labeling a technical philological correction as ‘AI-generated’ is nothing more than intellectual protectionism. It is a transparent attempt to gatekeep the debate and avoid addressing the devastating syntactic errors in your reading of AJ 18.88.

Dismissing a correction because of the tool used, rather than the facts presented, is a logical fallacy and a ‘death rattle’ for any objective discourse. If my Greek analysis is wrong, prove it. If you can’t, censoring the medium only confirms your inability to defend the message.”

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By: Etienne https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/17763#comment-43541 Sat, 14 Mar 2026 21:10:25 +0000 https://www.richardcarrier.info/?p=17763#comment-43541 In reply to Richard Carrier.

Carrier and similar translators essentially paraphrase Whiston without the requisite knowledge of Koine Greek or Roman legal-administrative procedure. They fail to recognize that in AJ 18.88–18.89, Καταστάντος δὲ τοῦ θορύβου Σαμαρέων indicates that the unrest persisted, not that it “was appeased” or “subsided.” The phrase παρὰ Οὐιτέλλιον ὑπατικὸν signals action under the authority of Visellius, not a doeldirectief to Vitellius; furthermore, Οὐιτέλλιον is a nonstandard spelling of the conventional βιτελλιος, reflecting either a copyist alteration or later editorial adjustment, not the original consular figure. The verb ἴασιν is the 3rd person plural aorist of ἵημι (“to send / dispatch”), not from εἰμί, indicating a collective action by multiple authorities (Tiberius, the Senate, and Visellius) rather than a single actor. Lamia, Pilate’s subordinate and friend of Tiberius, was relieved of his command in Syria, and Pilate was formally accused for the slaughter of the lost ones. By misinterpreting participles, plural forms, legal actors, and editorial corruptions, Whiston, Carrier, and others fundamentally misrepresent the procedure against Pilate, obscuring both the precise grammatical structure of the Greek text and its Roman legal context.

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By: Richard Carrier https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/17763#comment-43291 Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:11:57 +0000 https://www.richardcarrier.info/?p=17763#comment-43291 In reply to Etienne.

More crap.

See other comment. And the other comment.

All these wordwalls and comments bombing are against my comments policy. But I am letting them through today to establish a record everyone can revisit to see you’re crazy. If you continue to act like this I will ban you permanently here.

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By: Richard Carrier https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/17763#comment-43290 Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:09:57 +0000 https://www.richardcarrier.info/?p=17763#comment-43290 In reply to Etienne.

More crap.

See other comment.

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By: Richard Carrier https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/17763#comment-43289 Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:09:44 +0000 https://www.richardcarrier.info/?p=17763#comment-43289 In reply to Etienne.

More crap.

See other comment.

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By: Richard Carrier https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/17763#comment-43288 Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:08:29 +0000 https://www.richardcarrier.info/?p=17763#comment-43288 In reply to Etienne.

No, Etienne. You’re just a delusional crank with no ability even to reason reliably much less get any pertinent facts straight.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

The reasons the TF is fake are not because it has to be, but because all the evidence proves it is. And you are the one who cannot accept that and thus has to make up a tinfoil hat to wear to get it to go away.

All you are doing is inventing a conspiracy theory so you can tell yourself none of this evidence exists. Just like every other conspiracy theorist.

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By: Richard Carrier https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/17763#comment-43287 Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:05:53 +0000 https://www.richardcarrier.info/?p=17763#comment-43287 In reply to Etienne.

See other comment.

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By: Richard Carrier https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/17763#comment-43286 Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:05:15 +0000 https://www.richardcarrier.info/?p=17763#comment-43286 In reply to Etienne.

This looks like AI-generated content. That is banned on my site.

But it’s also crank bullshit. None of these statements are sound. It’s all false statements and fallacies. It’s garbage as far as reasoning goes. And I only take seriously arguments that aren’t trash like this.

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