Comments on: My New Article in SHERM https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/18603 Announcing appearances, publications, and analysis of questions historical, philosophical, and political by author, philosopher, and historian Richard Carrier. Sat, 17 Jul 2021 22:31:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Barry Rucker https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/18603#comment-32703 Sat, 17 Jul 2021 22:31:53 +0000 https://www.richardcarrier.info/?p=18603#comment-32703 In reply to Barry Rucker.

From a trance state, I realized — in a flash — the answer to questions that challenged humanity for ages. For example, by what mechanism did God create the universe? The answer: mumbo jumbo. How does the Bermuda Triangle suck in planes and ships? Mumbo jumbo! How do bread and wine transubstantiate into the body and blood of Christ? You got it: mumbo jumbo. Remote viewing? Salvation from sin? Spoon bending? The power of prayer? In each case, mumbo jumbo, that great and wonderful force.

However, MJ cannot explain such phenomena as the Trinity, psychic detectives, and prophecy. In another trance, I discovered the answer: hocus pocus. You want I should explain clairvoyance, miracles, and telekinesis? No doubt the energy of hocus pocus. How does Superman fly? HP.

How can I tell the difference between mumbo jumbo and hocus pocus? Intuition. Or sometimes it comes to me in a dream. Occasionally, I can feel it in my heart or read it in tea leaves.

Oh, the versatility of mumbo jumbo and hocus pocus. I have found nothing inexplicable using that dynamic duo, mumbo jumbo and hocus pocus. Exactly how do mumbo jumbo and hocus pocus work? Voila! By mumbo jumbo and hocus pocus.

Now to show what MJ and HP can predict…

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By: Richard Carrier https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/18603#comment-32687 Thu, 15 Jul 2021 20:34:16 +0000 https://www.richardcarrier.info/?p=18603#comment-32687 In reply to Luiz Henrique Carareto.

That’s covered in the book. For a summary and citations to the book see How Did Christianity Switch to a Historical Jesus? Which content was also adapted and expanded into a chapter in my more general summary Jesus from Outer Space.

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By: Luiz Henrique Carareto https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/18603#comment-32677 Tue, 13 Jul 2021 20:28:28 +0000 https://www.richardcarrier.info/?p=18603#comment-32677 Okay, I’m reading your book On the Historicity of Jesus and I have a question:

Why is there no conflict between Paul’s view (Jesus died in outer space) and the historical view of the gospel writers?

I mean, back then, in the first few decades, Paul’s view of Jesus must be the same as that of other members of the sect. Therefore, almost every church on that date must think of Jesus as a demigod who died in outer space. But if a few decades later (a lifetime) some of them began to write Jesus as a real person, we should expect there to be some conflict between the historicals and the mystics, like some letters from the mystics saying, “There are heretics who think the Lord came to Earth, “or in the gospels we should expect some of them to try to criticize the view of a heavenly Jesus as a parable saying that “Who thinks of a Jesus as a heavenly being are the Jews trying to falsify the true story” and so on ..

I confess I haven’t read the entire book yet (English isn’t my first language so it’s not that fast), but a “nobody” named Jesus seems more natural to me as a development of a Christian myth.

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By: Barry Rucker https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/18603#comment-32670 Tue, 13 Jul 2021 00:36:29 +0000 https://www.richardcarrier.info/?p=18603#comment-32670 Thanks for bringing SHERM to our attention. I subscribed.

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