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[[Image:RichardCarrierSM.jpg|right|upright|thumb|Richard Carrier in 2006]]
Richard Carrier is a historian and philosopher who became interested in the [[Existence of Jesus|Historicity of Jesus]] after reading [[Earl Doherty]]'s ''The Jesus Puzzle''. He has since become a public speaker on the historical reliability of the Bible and a leading proponent of the [[Jesus began as a myth and was later historicized|Jesus myth theory]].
{{quote|[Believers] ''need'' Jesus to be real, but I don't need Jesus to be a myth.<ref>Richard Carrier, [[On the Historicity of Jesus]], 2014</ref>}}


==Arguments==
==Arguments==


* [[Christ docetisc myth theory]]
* [[Argument from nonbelief|Argument from divine silence]]
* [[Argument from nonbelief|argument from divine silence]]
* [[Observations fit abiogenesis better than a designer God]]
* [[Observations fit abiogenesis better than a designer God]]
* [[God of the shrinking gaps]]
* [[Naturalism]] has been more successful than theism in [[God of the gaps]]
* [[Argument from inconsistent revelations]]
* [[Argument from inconsistent revelations]]
* Argument from divine inaction, a.k.a. the [[problem of evil]]
* Argument from divine inaction, a.k.a. the [[problem of evil]]


==See also==
==References==


* [[Existence of Jesus]]
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==External links==
==External links==


* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUYRoYl7i6U Did Jesus Even Exist? | Richard Carrier ]
* [https://www.richardcarrier.info/ Official website]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUYRoYl7i6U Did Jesus Even Exist? | Richard Carrier]


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[[Category:Authors]]
[[Category:Historians]]
[[Category:Historians]]
[[Category:Atheists]]

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Richard Carrier in 2006

Richard Carrier is a historian and philosopher who became interested in the Historicity of Jesus after reading Earl Doherty's The Jesus Puzzle. He has since become a public speaker on the historical reliability of the Bible and a leading proponent of the Jesus myth theory.

"[Believers] need Jesus to be real, but I don't need Jesus to be a myth.[1]"

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References[edit]

  1. Richard Carrier, On the Historicity of Jesus, 2014

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