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Prophecy and History: Some Pointers

Richard Carrier — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:10:19 +0000

I am near to completing my forthcoming rewrite of Sense and Goodness without God (which I will be retiring soon, so if you want to collect the original edition before it goes out of print, better get it now!). And one of the things I am doing is removing things that have gone out of […]

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My Starter Kit in Social Justice

Richard Carrier — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:23:48 +0000

My website’s category dropdown menu includes many social justice issues like racism, sexism, ableism, classism, privilege, feminism and men’s issues, gender and transgenderism, gay pride, culture, environment, polyamory, etc. And to understand why, the National Association of Social Workers has the best introductory explanation of what social justice is and why it’s important that I’ve […]

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Recommending Another Loftus Trilogy in the Philosophy of Religion

Richard Carrier — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:23:08 +0000

While my Three Recommendations in Godless Epistemology were of books I added to my Recommendations in Philosophy list, I wanted to post three more recommendations that veer too far to be suited to that particular list for reasons I explained last time: I don’t include philosophy of religion (“atheism,” “counter-apologetics,” and the like) on my […]

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Men Are More Dangerous Than a Bear but Not 95.1% Dangerous

Richard Carrier — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:01:58 +0000

You surely noticed men getting all angry recently that women were reporting they’d rather be found alone with a wild bear than a random man. The men are pretty much in the wrong there. Multiple converging studies suggest between an tenth and a sixth of men are (actually are) rapists, and between a quarter and […]

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Why Almost All Videos Suck, How to Make Them Better, and What I Charge Now to Critique Them

Richard Carrier — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 19:32:57 +0000

In this article I will explain (1) why almost all videos suck, (2) why I will usually only watch videos if you pay me to, (3) what the few exceptions are to all that, (4) and what a good video actually worth the bother of watching looks like (with examples!). Which may help you pick […]

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How Many Ancient Books Did the Christians Throw Away?

Richard Carrier — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:39:35 +0000

How much have we lost? That’s a question I get asked a lot. I have often ballparked it at over 99%. But I decided to dig in to some real numbers to see what percentage can actually be backed by evidence. And I found we can actually calculate, by multiple converging lines of evidence, that […]

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Christians vs. Atheists: What Are We Actually Arguing About?

Richard Carrier — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:04:19 +0000

I’ve made the point before that really, Christians and Atheists are only arguing over one single thing: whether the ground of all being has thoughts and feelings or not. Otherwise atheists already agree there is a ground of all being, and that everything that exists does have a causal explanation without thoughts or feelings at […]

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Distinguishing Awareness, Intelligence, and Consciousness

Richard Carrier — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:01:03 +0000

There is a rash lately of sensationalist claims of proving consciousness in everything from fungus to plants and even bacteria. All bullshit. But not of the usual woo variety. This time the bullshit is semantic. At least, at the origin of these ideas in actual research papers—never mind The Internet of Dumbery that exaggerates it […]

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Three Recommendations in Godless Epistemology

Richard Carrier — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:01:28 +0000

Godists have their own bogus epistemologies, designed to rationalize believing in gods. But rational people use only godless epistemologies, which aren’t rigged to favor any conclusion. I have long advocated Bayesian Epistemology as the correct logic for knowing what to believe and how confidently to believe it. So I realize I need to add a […]

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Hardback Edition of Hitler Homer Bible Christ

Richard Carrier — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:08:10 +0000

In preparation for a new anthology I have coming out later this year, which will be available in all formats, I just created a hardback edition of its companion volume. So if you want a complete set of my anthologies in hardback, you can start collecting now! The old book coming into hardback is Hitler […]

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