Comments on: David Fitzgerald’s Review of David Skrbina’s Amateur Jesus Hoax https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/39815 Announcing appearances, publications, and analysis of questions historical, philosophical, and political by author, philosopher, and historian Richard Carrier. Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:35:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Richard Carrier https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/39815#comment-43694 Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:35:32 +0000 https://www.richardcarrier.info/?p=39815#comment-43694 In reply to David Skrbina.

OMG you are so funny.

“No non-Jew would be so anxious to defend Jews; therefore anyone who defends Jews is a Jew” => “No one who isn’t a Haitian would defend Haitians; therefore I must be Haitian

After that laughably stupid argument, which you just delivered with a straight face (!), you literally declare yourself the antisemite you were trying to claim you weren’t this whole time (since thinking the Jews are “a people with the most detestable reputation in human history” is literally what “antisemitism” means).

So, you’ve given up “rebutting” David’s argument that you are a Nazi, and are now agreeing with David, and instead trying to argue that Nazis are cool?

That’s literally an own goal.

Well done.

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By: David Skrbina https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/39815#comment-43667 Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:53:34 +0000 https://www.richardcarrier.info/?p=39815#comment-43667 In reply to Richard Carrier.

Ok, so we need to ask ourselves: Why would a non-Jew be so anxious to defend Jews—a people with the most detestable reputation in human history; a people who are at the core of what even Carrier admits is a Jesus lie and deception; who have thoroughly corrupted American government; and who are today committing genocide and mass murder throughout the Middle East? 

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By: Richard Carrier https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/39815#comment-43656 Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:32:39 +0000 https://www.richardcarrier.info/?p=39815#comment-43656 In reply to David Skrbina.

This is hilarious. Why are Nazis so bad at logic?

“if Carrier were a Jew, that could explain why he would take personal insult at my book”
=>
“if Carrier were secretly a hyperintelligent lizard person from Alpha Centauri, that could explain why he would take personal insult at bad arguments”

Sounds like legit reasoning.

It really is a mystery why everyone hates Nazis. Gotta be the lizard people thing.

But nice one telling us you never had a real paying position at UH and that your “counter-essay” is totes amazing. I’m sure it’s face-palming garbage that isn’t worth the time it takes me to piss. But I’ll let folks decide for themselves.

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By: David Skrbina https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/39815#comment-43650 Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:53:15 +0000 https://www.richardcarrier.info/?p=39815#comment-43650 In reply to Richard Carrier.

I like to understand motives and causal factors, and it is obvious that if Carrier were a Jew, that could explain why he would take personal insult at my book, rather than giving substantive and serious criticism (which the above hit-piece does not do). I take him at his word that he is not. Why, then, the personal affront, rather than a conventional, logical critique? Jewish funding, perhaps? Or just an entrenched, leftist-liberal mindset that somehow responds irrationally to any criticism of Jews, even long-dead ones?

Nor does he, or Fitzgerald, bother to reply to my counter-essay posted at http://www.jesushoax.com, which refutes every point raised in the above so-called review. It’s real easy to say “I don’t debate X”, where X is your favorite bad guy, but this is not scholarship or even serious argumentation. It just makes Carrier look like a dupe or a fool.

As for my time at Univ of Helsinki, that was a zero-pay appointment that was terminating within a few months and hence was functionally complete. No real loss there. But that doesn’t make for a juicy story, does it?

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By: Richard Carrier https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/39815#comment-43572 Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:06:15 +0000 https://www.richardcarrier.info/?p=39815#comment-43572 In reply to Levi Reichardt.

[Skrbina] speculated Carrier might be a Jew

Oh, right. Just like Hillary Clinton is a crypto-Jew / lizard person. Very good.

No, of course, I’m so thoroughly not Jewish it’s laughable to mistake my white-trash WASP background for “being Jewish.”

But no, I will not “debate” self-described Nazis. Especially documented liars.

Well. Maybe for a million dollars. If Skrbina pays me a million dollars. Then I could donate a hundred thousand of it to the SLPC. Just to piss him off.

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By: Levi Reichardt https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/39815#comment-43570 Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:52:45 +0000 https://www.richardcarrier.info/?p=39815#comment-43570 In reply to David Skrbina.

I read your reply to this review. You speculated Carrier might be a Jew… as if that explains away his position. Why not make it interesting and debate him whether Hitler’s 3rd Reich was Christian. Carrier already defeated Richard Weikart but now he has Mikael Nilsson’s research to add to his arguments.

I read Dalton’s translation of Rosenberg’s Mythus. In it, he notes that Alfred believed 1) Jesus existed 2) Jesus was Aryan and not a Jew. Dalton proceeds to claim Alfred made an error instead of admitting the man was some form of Christian. According to James B. Whisker’s book, Rosenberg was raised Lutheran but ended up an anti-clerical Cathar similar to Otto Rahn–i.e. unorthodox but true believers.

You already ousted yourself as Thomas Dalton yet allude that it’s not you in this review. I find this particularly bizarre. Didn’t you lose your position at Helsinki over this?

David, you personally profit from Hitler’s Mein Kompf and Streicher’s Der Stürmer. You literally sell the proven forgery “Protocols of Learned Elders of Zion”.Then you want to pretend the neo-Nazi label is inaccurate when it’s a bullseye.

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By: Richard Carrier https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/39815#comment-43563 Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:38:21 +0000 https://www.richardcarrier.info/?p=39815#comment-43563 In reply to David Skrbina.

Lol.

“I’ll sink-hole any actual refutation of me and just post whatever is weak or lame so it makes me look good.”

This is practically “Nazi 101.”

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By: David Skrbina https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/39815#comment-43556 Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:25:53 +0000 https://www.richardcarrier.info/?p=39815#comment-43556 In reply to Frederic Christie.

Replies may be sent directly to me. If they are serious and substantive, I will post.

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By: Frederic Christie https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/39815#comment-43505 Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:29:25 +0000 https://www.richardcarrier.info/?p=39815#comment-43505 In reply to Tony Seybert.

What a shock: he just wanted views and the chance to poison people with his delusion. Neither Carrier nor Fitzgerald could comment to retort to his strawmen and misrepresentations if they wished to, nor even do what Richard did and allow a link.

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By: Tony Seybert https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/39815#comment-43496 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:20:56 +0000 https://www.richardcarrier.info/?p=39815#comment-43496 In reply to Richard Carrier.

Who is the one-sided slanderer? I went and looked at Skrbina’s reply and couldn’t help but notice that there is no way to leave any comments.

That’s some typical right-wing hypocrisy.

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