Help Rescue Our Colleagues from Murderers
This is a big one. We’ve been working secretly on rescuing our own Taslima Nasrin from a hit list in her own county and have now gotten her to safety at some continuing expense that we could really use your help with. We would also like to save several other...Reminder: Learn How to Question or Defend the Historicity of Jesus
Hey! Want to know how to defend the historicity of Jesus against naysayers? This class is for you. Want to know how to be the most irrefutable naysayer? This class is also for you. Join now. Ask all the questions you want for a month. Offer all the challenges you...Groovy Video Companion to A Better Life
I just watched Chris Johnson’s new documentary, A Better Life. The book was already fantastic. Beautiful photography, great interview excerpts, of both famous and everyday atheists with remarkable stories. The video companion lives up to it. This is a must-have...Some Good Stuff on Social Justice Responsibility
Thank you, David Wong and Miri Mogilevsky! A girlfriend tipped me off to David Wong’s really amusing and spot-on 101 on why social justice (particularly regarding structural racism and sexism) is not about white guilt but about fixing what our ancestors broke....New Course This June on the Historicity of Jesus!
I have updated my course on Questioning or Defending the Historicity of Jesus to account for the reception it’s had this past year. And now I’m offering it again over the course of June, which means this new class starts under two weeks from now (details...At Atheist/Humanist Conference in Pennsylvania!
I’ll be speaking in Harrisburg, PA this September (11th-13th) for the amazing Atheist/Humanist Conference. And they have a fantastic lineup! Other presenters include … Matt Dillahunty (of The Atheist Experience), Beth Presswood (Godless Bitches; The...41 Reasons We’re, Like, Totes Sure Jesus Existed!
People often ask me about Christian apologist James Bishop’s “41 Reasons Why Scholars Know Jesus Really Existed.” Because it’s the highest number of reasons anyone has attempted to claim (apart from the 10/42 apologetic, which Matthew Ferguson...Appearing in Boise, Idaho, This Wednesday — For National Day of Reason!
Where? Idaho state capital steps (in Boise). When? Noon to 1:30pm, Thursday, May 7. Why? To make a public appeal for the separation of church and state, in honor of this year’s National Day of Reason (2015). Sponsored by the Treasure Valley Coalition of Reason....The Josephus Testimonium: Let’s Just Admit It’s Fake Already
A new article just beats this dead horse deader still. Hat tip to Vridar and Peter Kirby. Honestly. The evidence that the Testimonium Flavianum (or TF) is entirely a late Christian forgery is now as overwhelming as such evidence could ever get. Short of uncovering a...Debate Course Starts Tomorrow!
Join us for May in learning from Jeff Lowder and myself how to improve your capabilities in debate (at the podium, and online). Learn all the tricks and how to defeat them. Learn how to be effective and educational. Learn what not to do. And what to try for. Details...Looking for a Date Middle of May
So, this is experimental. I’d like to go on a date in May. And for the first time, I’m going to try a bat signal: putting a call out on my blog. I don’t know anyone else who has tried doing that, so I have no precedent to work from as to etiquette or...Katherine Cross on Tone Policing
Katherine Cross has written an excellent piece on distinguishing legitimate from illegitimate tone policing: Words for Cutting: Why We Need to Stop Abusing The Tone Argument. The article is a valuable read all through. Do not regard my summary here as its replacement....Following Me on Facebook Might Be a Thing
I’ve realized that I often post things to my Facebook wall that I don’t mention on my blog. And then I realized some readers of my blog might want to also read those things (always brief comments or announcements of places I’m hanging out—where...Defining the Supernatural vs. Logical Positivism
In working slowly through a gigantic backlog of blog comments, I met with one that goes back to an old school question, about my project to demarcate the natural and the supernatural. The comment by Enlightenment Liberal is here. He is asking questions about the...Back in Manteca Next Month!
Last year in I spoke on Proving History. Now I’m back to cover the second half of the story: On the Historicity of Jesus. I’ll survey some key details of ancient history and outline the theory defended in the book. There will also be a preshow dinner, and...Get Dr. Carrier’s Latest!
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