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How Pseudo-Rationality Grounds Conservative Worldviews: My Debatecon Followup

Richard Carrier — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 20:42:17 +0000

This month I was invited to two debates at Debatecon 6 in Nashville hosted by Modern Day Debate: the existence of God with Michael Jones of Inspiring Philosophy and Christian Nationalism vs. Secular Humanism with Andrew Wilson. It was okay. But I have thoughts. I’ll first describe my personal impressions. Then summarize why the Wilson […]

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The Carrier-Wilson Debate in Nashville: Christianity Or Secular Humanism, Which Is Best for Society?

Richard Carrier — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:06:56 +0000

I will be debating Andrew Wilson, live on stage, in Nashville, Tennessee, this November 16. Yes, that Andrew Wilson. I expect it will be a dumpster fire like it was with Sargon, and as experienced by Dillahunty last year with Wilson. But I’ll stick around. Because I only do this for real money now, as […]

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A Thorough Fisk of the Arguments of Fernando Bermejo-Rubio and Franco Tommasi

Richard Carrier — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 17:27:00 +0000

I just published the English edition of my debate with Fernando Bermejo-Rubio and Franco Tommasi, Jesus: Militant or Nonexistent? Two Views Compared (Philosophy Press, 2025), including a chapter by Robert Price, and originally published in Italian as Gesù resistente Gesù inesistente: Due visioni a confronto (Manni, 2022). See last week’s announcement for a description and […]

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My New Book! Jesus: Militant or Nonexistent? Two Views Compared

Richard Carrier — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 22:55:57 +0000

I just published the English edition of my debate with Fernando Bermejo-Rubio and Franco Tommasi, Jesus: Militant or Nonexistent? Two Views Compared (Philosophy Press, 2025), including a chapter by Robert Price, and originally published in Italian as Gesù resistente Gesù inesistente: Due visioni a confronto (Manni, 2022). There we composed a written debate, meeting assigned […]

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Did the Rapture Already Happen!? My Debate with the Full Preterist Don Preston Is Tonight

Richard Carrier — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 15:53:52 +0000

You can catch up on the strange world of Christian preterism (a view lately gaining a lot of attention, and causing a lot of panic among Evangelicals), especially “full preterism,” at Wikipedia. But in the ultra-quick: Don Preston holds that Jesus not only did predict he would return and complete the end times in 70 […]

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Is There at Least a Merely Deistic Kalam Cosmological Argument? A Debate with Carlo Alvaro

Richard Carrier — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 16:15:54 +0000

As another outcome of my recent debate with Andrew Loke (see We Should Reject Even the First Premise of the Kalam Cosmological Argument and What If We Reimagine ‘Nothing’ as a Field-State?) I have here engaged to debate a professor of philosophy, Dr. Carlo Alvaro, on the subject of the Kalam Cosmological Argument again, because […]

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We Should Reject Even the First Premise of the Kalam Cosmological Argument

Richard Carrier — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 17:05:24 +0000

After an exchange of articles with Andrew Loke (see Why Nothing Remains a Problem: The Andrew Loke Fiasco and his reply) we were asked by a private professional forum to debate the topic of the Causal Principle, which anchors the first premise of the Kalam Cosmological Argument (or KCA), to wit, “Everything that begins to […]

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Did Christians Steal Their Religion from Egypt?

Richard Carrier — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 14:22:27 +0000

There will be an online special event next week: the night of the 23rd of December (a “pre” Christmas Eve!), I will debate Jabari Osaze on whether Christianity was stolen from Egyptian religion. This is an exclusive webinar event. Tickets are $30. This is the same person I critiqued before in Some Problems with Modern […]

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Captain DadPool on Who Is Inventing Workarounds: Historicists or Mythicists?

Richard Carrier — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 18:02:20 +0000

Youtuber Captain DadPool recently published a short video (Responding to Godless Engineer’s Recent Attacks) that so aptly captures the backwards methodology of defenders of the historicity of Jesus it will be productive to analyze. Especially as it supplements my last article on Ehrman’s inept methodology (Did Jesus Even Exist? Bart Ehrman’s Latest Take), which consists […]

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Gesù Resistente, Gesù Inesistente

Richard Carrier — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 20:41:23 +0000

I have successfully produced several debates on the historicity of Jesus with qualified PhDs (live and online; see: Crook; Evans; Goodacre; Waters; and twice now with MacDonald; in Akin and Horn, Horn has multiple masters degrees). But I have long wanted to get one into a book format. I have at long last succeeded—but alas, […]

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