You could repent. Moreover, you could ask God for eternal forgiveness through applying the death and resurrection of Jesus to your life of sin within the quietness of your bedroom tonight. As an unrepentant sinner myself, I made this decision around 15 years ago. This is the most important decision that you could ever make. - Romans 10:9-10
@BibleStudy1611 Hehe. I hope you're "raptured on the 21st", so we'll be rid of you. But wait, "gods" and "raptures" and "heavens" are just fairy-tales..so it won't happen! Shit! : )
What's with the rip and the charicatured characterization on Peter Singer? I thought that was in very poor taste. I'm willing to chalk it up to a momentary lapse in judgement, otherwise I lost a degree of respect for Dr. Price after having seen this. Excellent writer though. I'll give Robert that. He writes better than Singer.
One important tool of scientific method is to look for inconsistencies or contradictions in any theory put forward to us. Anything thats not logically consistent cannot be true. This much we know. And this has worked wonders for mankind over the last 2000 years, Just look at the achievements.
Hihi! "Isn't that an oxymoron, isn't it a bit like saying "a christian scientist"? He's almost right, it turns out. Because in a recent survey done among 700 members of the NAS, only SIX of them said that they "believe in God" now. So In the not too distant future there probably won't be any believers left among scientists. : )
@winterstellar There are dozens of scientists who believe in God. I can give you the names of about 20. Machio Kaku, PhD recently said on C-Span while promoting his new book when asked if he believes in God said: "I don't believe in the God of miracles but the God of Albert Einstein, the God who created what came first and the laws of nature" Dr. Kaku said he is working on a theory of everything that will allow us "to read the mind of God". Now that will be something will it not?
@boblackey1 Read Machio Kaku's Parallel worlds and get back to me on whether or not you think he believes in a god. From the quote, it seems that he imagines a first cause, which would be far removed from any "god" man has created. Also, here is an Einstein quote for you, "The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses...".
@maraknimajneb There is NO question at all the Dr. Kaku believes in God. The C-Span interview I saw happened just weeks ago. The moderator even ask Dr. Kaku about Richard Dawkins insistence that "no God exists". Dr. Kaku said that when asked how did the laws of nature and physics come to be, there is little doubt that Dawkins would have to say "I don't know". Einestine "God does not play dice with the universe".
@boblackey1 You are still wrong. He was raised Budhist he explains his beliefs well in "Parrelel Worlds". If you mean god by Einstein's definition, basically an abbreviation for the order and laws of the universe, then that seems reasonable. But to extend that to any intervening personal god is unfounded.
Also, Dawkins' answer is reasoned and hedged like most level-headed scientists, but not an opportunity to justify extensive beliefs in god (i.e. substituting a god for ignorance).
@maraknimajneb It is correct Einstein, Kaku and Hoyle for that matter didn't believe in the God of any religion and a "personal" God. Hoyle:"It is as if a super intellect has monkeyed with physics" Kaku said when asked about Dawkins that he was sure if he asked Dawkins who caculated the laws of nature he would say noboby then if asked how did they come to be, Kaku said he would bet Dawkins would have to say "I don't know". Yes Kaku and Einstein believe in a God of intelligence and activity.Sorry
@boblackey1 These great men are clearly using the term god as a recognition of our ignorance as to the origins of the universe. To take the scientific and humble recognition of ignorance and project onto that a "belief" in a god of "intelligence and activity", is intellectually dishonest.
Kaku himself seems to leave no room for a god when he discusses the potential multi-verse, a byproduct of string theory, and that our universe may have be the result of quantum fluctuation.
@boblackey1 Between Einstein's quotes of "You may call me an agnostic..." and "I do not believe in a personal god", I'm not sure what room you have to insert, as you put it, Einstein's belief in a god of "intelligence and activity". Also, saying that something is possible is not to admit a belief in it.
@maraknimajneb Well clearly Einstein and Kaku believe in God. God to them is an intelligence that caculated the laws of nature and physics which control everything that happened after the big bang. Last I checked, most big bang supported posit that everything we know began to exist then. All time, space, matter and energy. Even NO space. Nowhere for anything to be located. With multi=verse one could have billions of other universes with this one being the one with order and laws...
@maraknimajneb which would weaken the likelyhood that a first cause intelligence exists. Personally as an amature I am convinced as was Sir Fred Hoyle that a God must exist who was first cause and caculated the laws of physics. Paul Davies is another scientist who agrees. But if this is but the God of Spinoza which Einstein and Kaku accepts, don't worry. You will never have to answer to this God at death or fashion your lifestyle to fit the requirements of a religion such as Islam, Christiaity.
@boblackey1 "It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal god and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."
@maraknimajneb "I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings" "In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, wich my limited mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who say THERE IS NO GOD. BUT WHAT MAKES ME AGNREY IS THAT THEY QUOTE ME FOR SUPPORT" both quotes from Einstein. Also have Einstein saying he is NOT an atheist. Same for Kaku.Sorry that you are wrong.
@boblackey1 So he's a kind of "deist" then? One who believes a God started things but has stayed away ever since? That's a belief-form that doesn't do any harm, I suppose, one that doesn't try to force anything on anyone and so one. I really like Dr Kaku, and I watch him on TV whenever I can. : )
Dr.Price is one of the most brilliant biblical scholars in recent years. He's an asset to the freethought and skeptic communities. In many of his brilliant podcasts he often drops hints of his pro-republican, conservative, objectivist leanings. However, I don't think we, who are politically left-of-center, should try to engage him in polemics on his politics, we should appreciate his brilliance as a biblical scholar and learn as much as possible as he is an asset to the overall atheist movement.
@dallaskenn The problem I find with Dr. Price other that he seems not to care about his health (he can't walk well and is too fat) is that he is almost ALONE among qualified professional skeptical scholars and historians. Bart Ehrman, PhD, James Tabor, PhD, John Dominic Crosson, PhD and over ONE THOUSAND others accept a historical Jesus via the evidence! Earl Doherty has NO PhD or even a masters. He may be sharp but Doherty is NOT qualified to attend any of the professional conferences.
@boblackey1 You should listen to this 5 part series all the way through, if you have not already. Dr. Price's view is far more nuanced than that there was no Jesus. Along with his great discussion of the principle of analogy and the provisionality of historical reconstruction, he states at the end of part 5 that there is "virtually no surviving evidence for a historical Jesus".
@maraknimajneb Dr. Price will NOT flatly say Jesus didn't exist when pressed. On the other hand Bart Ehrman, PhD has told me presonally that he knows ALL the heavy hitters in the field, well over 1,000 scholars and historians, and NONE reject a historical Jesus. That there is more evidence for Jesus than most people from his time. That ALL accept Paul as author of Galatains and Paul, in an off the cuff remark which is very important to historians, says he met James the brother of the Lord.
Paul was a "brother of the lord" as well, a follower who had contact with Christ through visions or dreams. Christians often referred to fellow Christians as "brothers". Check out the verse Philippians 1:14 for instance.
Just because James is referred to as a "brother of the lord", it doesn't mean he's a biological brother (i.e. shared the same mother).
@HuckMeHard Who says so? YOU? Actually Paul in Galatains says he went up to Jerusalem and met Peter and James THE brother of the Lord. Bart Ehrman, PhD took the Infidel Guy to task and made him look like a fool on this point. Also according to Ehrman, Ehrman is very active in the Society of Biblical Studies and knows over 1,000 other scholars and historians working around the world and NOT ONE rejects a historical Jesus with Price being the ONLY one and even Price, when pressed, is not dogmatic.
@HuckMeHard There is NO question that Paul in Galatains and early Christian writings from the church fathers make it crystal clear that James and Jesus HAD THE SAME MOTHER!! Where do you get the notion that is not the case. What scholar or historian? Even Josephus calls James the brother of Jesus. (Josephus says Jesus rather than Lord which is different than all Christian writings) The gospels state that Jesus had several brothers and sisters. But the Roman Catholics insist they are but cousins.
Feel free to offer any proof that this James was actually a biological brother of Jesus. Even the James epistle (supposedly written by this same James) makes no mention about him being the brother of Jesus.
If he was the actual brother of Jesus he would have mentioned that important fact in his epistle, without a doubt. What better proof that Jesus was the divine messiah than having his own brother state that as a fact in his epistle? But he doesn't. Why not?
@HuckMeHard Robert Eiseman, PhD wrote a 1,000 page book "James the brother of Jesus". Price loves it and gave it a glowing review but other scholars think Eiseman's book has serious flaws in not a few places. But none the less, Eiseman writes that Christianity started as a cult and Jesus wasn't the central figure at first. After Jesus was crucified about 30 AD by Pontius Pilate, his brother (in the flesh) James became the leader of what became the Christian religion.
@HuckMeHard Also the fact that James in the epistle doesn't mention that he is the brother of Jesus proves nothing. The facts are that the early church and the New Testament were in agreement that James and Jesus had the same mother. The Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches, due to their later development of theology concerning Mary, backed that down the road and made James the COUSIN of Jesus becasue they developed a doctrine that Mary remained a virgin and was holy and without sin.
@HuckMeHard Paul in Galatians 1:19 "But I saw none of the other apostles except James the Lord's brother" is one of Bart Ehrman, PhD's smoking guns that, to him, proves beyond doubt that Jesus existed as a human being as he rejects the virgin birth and Jesus' divinity. Also John 7:5 says that Jesus' own BROTHERS did not believe Jesus was the Christ(Messiah) during his earthly ministry. Mark 6:3 "is this not the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James" was spoken by one who rejected Jesus
@HuckMeHard I think if you will search Google and/or read scholary books about James, you will see clearly that close to ALL historians and scholars accept James as the BROTHER of Jesus. James Tabor, PhD (University of Chicago in Christian origins) takes the position that James and Jesus had different fathers. That Jesus had a human father who got Mary pregnant out of wedlock. Tabor wonders if the Jews had it right that it was a Roman soldier. Tabor has looked at Pantera's tomb.
@HuckMeHard And finally. Why do you want to buck most scholars and historians who hold Jesus and James had the same mother? Even Josephus wrote it. BTW, what bothers me about Josephus is nobody wrote about him while he was alive, nobody knows when he died or is buried and the oldest extant copy of his work only dates to the 10th century. That is about a 1,000 year gap between the original and the oldest copy. Maybe Josephus didn't write anything! Or didn't write what is now called his work.
@maraknimajneb The Jesus "myth' theory is rather DEAD in academic circles. Nobody but Robert Price takes it seriously. We must turn to writers such as Earl Doherty, Acharya S., Freke and Grandy for material that completely rejects a historical Jesus. Indeed Acharya S. even rejects a historical Paul, claims ALL his letters of fakes and when James Tabor, PhD (Christian origins University of Chicago) heard of this. He laughed!! NONE of the authors I mention have a PhD or even a masters. Amatures!!
@smpunditz The house mics were trash, I had to pull out a 57 and 58 from my filming gear and rig sound for both my cam and the board. I had no mounts so duck tape had to suffice.
@smpunditz And meanwhile at a mega-church somewhere they're surely installing a brand new theatrical light system including Vari-Lites and LED strips. Oh, and they're buying up ad space that conveniently lands all over freethought videos or all over every video (cough cough "I'm a Mormon" campaign cough). I guess that's what we get for having a woefully less interesting and unsatisfying product: our truth is nowhere near as glamorous or heartwarming as their more fanciful "truth" seems to be.
@cloudincloudout thanks for pointing out that I accidently dropped the last letter of two words OVER A YEAR LATER!! You should become a grammar teacher.
Agree with Price about Earl Doherty's work. I'm reading "Jesus: Neither God nor Man" for the second time. It is a page turner, like a mystery but with more meat.
Robert Price is God's gift to religion.
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You could repent. Moreover, you could ask God for eternal forgiveness through applying the death and resurrection of Jesus to your life of sin within the quietness of your bedroom tonight. As an unrepentant sinner myself, I made this decision around 15 years ago. This is the most important decision that you could ever make. - Romans 10:9-10
paularenas26 1 month ago
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How Christian of you.
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This man is a piece of trash-I wouldn't waste my spit on him!
BIG FAT PIECE OF TRASH-LIAR HERETIC-Waste of oxygen!
BibleStudy1611 10 months ago
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Praise the Lord Jewsus!
ZOGcorp 9 months ago
@BibleStudy1611 Hehe. I hope you're "raptured on the 21st", so we'll be rid of you. But wait, "gods" and "raptures" and "heavens" are just fairy-tales..so it won't happen! Shit! : )
winterstellar 9 months ago
We know that many,many priests do not believe in what they preach.They have logic and reason know these are fables.
fulfilled123 10 months ago
Thanks for uploading.
DonJulioBlanco2002 11 months ago
What's with the rip and the charicatured characterization on Peter Singer? I thought that was in very poor taste. I'm willing to chalk it up to a momentary lapse in judgement, otherwise I lost a degree of respect for Dr. Price after having seen this. Excellent writer though. I'll give Robert that. He writes better than Singer.
MikkalaTube 1 year ago
One important tool of scientific method is to look for inconsistencies or contradictions in any theory put forward to us. Anything thats not logically consistent cannot be true. This much we know. And this has worked wonders for mankind over the last 2000 years, Just look at the achievements.
lamdawave 1 year ago
this guy is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo boring¡¡
abiamo1 1 year ago
Hihi! "Isn't that an oxymoron, isn't it a bit like saying "a christian scientist"? He's almost right, it turns out. Because in a recent survey done among 700 members of the NAS, only SIX of them said that they "believe in God" now. So In the not too distant future there probably won't be any believers left among scientists. : )
winterstellar 1 year ago
@winterstellar That would be SO awesome! : )
winterstellar 1 year ago
@winterstellar There are dozens of scientists who believe in God. I can give you the names of about 20. Machio Kaku, PhD recently said on C-Span while promoting his new book when asked if he believes in God said: "I don't believe in the God of miracles but the God of Albert Einstein, the God who created what came first and the laws of nature" Dr. Kaku said he is working on a theory of everything that will allow us "to read the mind of God". Now that will be something will it not?
boblackey1 1 year ago
@boblackey1 Read Machio Kaku's Parallel worlds and get back to me on whether or not you think he believes in a god. From the quote, it seems that he imagines a first cause, which would be far removed from any "god" man has created. Also, here is an Einstein quote for you, "The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses...".
maraknimajneb 1 year ago
@maraknimajneb There is NO question at all the Dr. Kaku believes in God. The C-Span interview I saw happened just weeks ago. The moderator even ask Dr. Kaku about Richard Dawkins insistence that "no God exists". Dr. Kaku said that when asked how did the laws of nature and physics come to be, there is little doubt that Dawkins would have to say "I don't know". Einestine "God does not play dice with the universe".
boblackey1 1 year ago
@boblackey1 You are still wrong. He was raised Budhist he explains his beliefs well in "Parrelel Worlds". If you mean god by Einstein's definition, basically an abbreviation for the order and laws of the universe, then that seems reasonable. But to extend that to any intervening personal god is unfounded.
Also, Dawkins' answer is reasoned and hedged like most level-headed scientists, but not an opportunity to justify extensive beliefs in god (i.e. substituting a god for ignorance).
maraknimajneb 1 year ago
@maraknimajneb It is correct Einstein, Kaku and Hoyle for that matter didn't believe in the God of any religion and a "personal" God. Hoyle:"It is as if a super intellect has monkeyed with physics" Kaku said when asked about Dawkins that he was sure if he asked Dawkins who caculated the laws of nature he would say noboby then if asked how did they come to be, Kaku said he would bet Dawkins would have to say "I don't know". Yes Kaku and Einstein believe in a God of intelligence and activity.Sorry
boblackey1 1 year ago
@boblackey1 These great men are clearly using the term god as a recognition of our ignorance as to the origins of the universe. To take the scientific and humble recognition of ignorance and project onto that a "belief" in a god of "intelligence and activity", is intellectually dishonest.
Kaku himself seems to leave no room for a god when he discusses the potential multi-verse, a byproduct of string theory, and that our universe may have be the result of quantum fluctuation.
maraknimajneb 1 year ago
@boblackey1 Between Einstein's quotes of "You may call me an agnostic..." and "I do not believe in a personal god", I'm not sure what room you have to insert, as you put it, Einstein's belief in a god of "intelligence and activity". Also, saying that something is possible is not to admit a belief in it.
maraknimajneb 1 year ago
@maraknimajneb Well clearly Einstein and Kaku believe in God. God to them is an intelligence that caculated the laws of nature and physics which control everything that happened after the big bang. Last I checked, most big bang supported posit that everything we know began to exist then. All time, space, matter and energy. Even NO space. Nowhere for anything to be located. With multi=verse one could have billions of other universes with this one being the one with order and laws...
boblackey1 1 year ago
@maraknimajneb which would weaken the likelyhood that a first cause intelligence exists. Personally as an amature I am convinced as was Sir Fred Hoyle that a God must exist who was first cause and caculated the laws of physics. Paul Davies is another scientist who agrees. But if this is but the God of Spinoza which Einstein and Kaku accepts, don't worry. You will never have to answer to this God at death or fashion your lifestyle to fit the requirements of a religion such as Islam, Christiaity.
boblackey1 1 year ago
@boblackey1 "It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal god and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."
- Albert Einstein
maraknimajneb 1 year ago
@maraknimajneb "I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings" "In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, wich my limited mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who say THERE IS NO GOD. BUT WHAT MAKES ME AGNREY IS THAT THEY QUOTE ME FOR SUPPORT" both quotes from Einstein. Also have Einstein saying he is NOT an atheist. Same for Kaku.Sorry that you are wrong.
boblackey1 1 year ago
@boblackey1 So he's a kind of "deist" then? One who believes a God started things but has stayed away ever since? That's a belief-form that doesn't do any harm, I suppose, one that doesn't try to force anything on anyone and so one. I really like Dr Kaku, and I watch him on TV whenever I can. : )
winterstellar 1 year ago
@winterstellar Yes that is the impression I got from seeing Dr. Kaku on C-Span.
boblackey1 1 year ago
Brilliant speaker and great series any more please?
Tridhos 1 year ago
Dr.Price is one of the most brilliant biblical scholars in recent years. He's an asset to the freethought and skeptic communities. In many of his brilliant podcasts he often drops hints of his pro-republican, conservative, objectivist leanings. However, I don't think we, who are politically left-of-center, should try to engage him in polemics on his politics, we should appreciate his brilliance as a biblical scholar and learn as much as possible as he is an asset to the overall atheist movement.
dallaskenn 1 year ago
@dallaskenn The problem I find with Dr. Price other that he seems not to care about his health (he can't walk well and is too fat) is that he is almost ALONE among qualified professional skeptical scholars and historians. Bart Ehrman, PhD, James Tabor, PhD, John Dominic Crosson, PhD and over ONE THOUSAND others accept a historical Jesus via the evidence! Earl Doherty has NO PhD or even a masters. He may be sharp but Doherty is NOT qualified to attend any of the professional conferences.
boblackey1 1 year ago
@boblackey1 You should listen to this 5 part series all the way through, if you have not already. Dr. Price's view is far more nuanced than that there was no Jesus. Along with his great discussion of the principle of analogy and the provisionality of historical reconstruction, he states at the end of part 5 that there is "virtually no surviving evidence for a historical Jesus".
maraknimajneb 1 year ago
@maraknimajneb Dr. Price will NOT flatly say Jesus didn't exist when pressed. On the other hand Bart Ehrman, PhD has told me presonally that he knows ALL the heavy hitters in the field, well over 1,000 scholars and historians, and NONE reject a historical Jesus. That there is more evidence for Jesus than most people from his time. That ALL accept Paul as author of Galatains and Paul, in an off the cuff remark which is very important to historians, says he met James the brother of the Lord.
boblackey1 1 year ago
@boblackey1
Paul was a "brother of the lord" as well, a follower who had contact with Christ through visions or dreams. Christians often referred to fellow Christians as "brothers". Check out the verse Philippians 1:14 for instance.
Just because James is referred to as a "brother of the lord", it doesn't mean he's a biological brother (i.e. shared the same mother).
HuckMeHard 1 year ago
@HuckMeHard Who says so? YOU? Actually Paul in Galatains says he went up to Jerusalem and met Peter and James THE brother of the Lord. Bart Ehrman, PhD took the Infidel Guy to task and made him look like a fool on this point. Also according to Ehrman, Ehrman is very active in the Society of Biblical Studies and knows over 1,000 other scholars and historians working around the world and NOT ONE rejects a historical Jesus with Price being the ONLY one and even Price, when pressed, is not dogmatic.
boblackey1 1 year ago
@HuckMeHard There is NO question that Paul in Galatains and early Christian writings from the church fathers make it crystal clear that James and Jesus HAD THE SAME MOTHER!! Where do you get the notion that is not the case. What scholar or historian? Even Josephus calls James the brother of Jesus. (Josephus says Jesus rather than Lord which is different than all Christian writings) The gospels state that Jesus had several brothers and sisters. But the Roman Catholics insist they are but cousins.
boblackey1 1 year ago
@boblackey1
Feel free to offer any proof that this James was actually a biological brother of Jesus. Even the James epistle (supposedly written by this same James) makes no mention about him being the brother of Jesus.
If he was the actual brother of Jesus he would have mentioned that important fact in his epistle, without a doubt. What better proof that Jesus was the divine messiah than having his own brother state that as a fact in his epistle? But he doesn't. Why not?
HuckMeHard 1 year ago
@HuckMeHard Robert Eiseman, PhD wrote a 1,000 page book "James the brother of Jesus". Price loves it and gave it a glowing review but other scholars think Eiseman's book has serious flaws in not a few places. But none the less, Eiseman writes that Christianity started as a cult and Jesus wasn't the central figure at first. After Jesus was crucified about 30 AD by Pontius Pilate, his brother (in the flesh) James became the leader of what became the Christian religion.
boblackey1 1 year ago
@HuckMeHard Also the fact that James in the epistle doesn't mention that he is the brother of Jesus proves nothing. The facts are that the early church and the New Testament were in agreement that James and Jesus had the same mother. The Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches, due to their later development of theology concerning Mary, backed that down the road and made James the COUSIN of Jesus becasue they developed a doctrine that Mary remained a virgin and was holy and without sin.
boblackey1 1 year ago
@HuckMeHard Paul in Galatians 1:19 "But I saw none of the other apostles except James the Lord's brother" is one of Bart Ehrman, PhD's smoking guns that, to him, proves beyond doubt that Jesus existed as a human being as he rejects the virgin birth and Jesus' divinity. Also John 7:5 says that Jesus' own BROTHERS did not believe Jesus was the Christ(Messiah) during his earthly ministry. Mark 6:3 "is this not the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James" was spoken by one who rejected Jesus
boblackey1 1 year ago
@HuckMeHard I think if you will search Google and/or read scholary books about James, you will see clearly that close to ALL historians and scholars accept James as the BROTHER of Jesus. James Tabor, PhD (University of Chicago in Christian origins) takes the position that James and Jesus had different fathers. That Jesus had a human father who got Mary pregnant out of wedlock. Tabor wonders if the Jews had it right that it was a Roman soldier. Tabor has looked at Pantera's tomb.
boblackey1 1 year ago
@HuckMeHard And finally. Why do you want to buck most scholars and historians who hold Jesus and James had the same mother? Even Josephus wrote it. BTW, what bothers me about Josephus is nobody wrote about him while he was alive, nobody knows when he died or is buried and the oldest extant copy of his work only dates to the 10th century. That is about a 1,000 year gap between the original and the oldest copy. Maybe Josephus didn't write anything! Or didn't write what is now called his work.
boblackey1 1 year ago
@maraknimajneb The Jesus "myth' theory is rather DEAD in academic circles. Nobody but Robert Price takes it seriously. We must turn to writers such as Earl Doherty, Acharya S., Freke and Grandy for material that completely rejects a historical Jesus. Indeed Acharya S. even rejects a historical Paul, claims ALL his letters of fakes and when James Tabor, PhD (Christian origins University of Chicago) heard of this. He laughed!! NONE of the authors I mention have a PhD or even a masters. Amatures!!
boblackey1 1 year ago
love this dude! His manner of speaking is a little bit like Tom Waits' 'drawl'
SteakMusic 1 year ago
This guy is awesome, I'm amazed I just discovered this guy.
AR333 1 year ago
I love the way this guy talks. I first heard him on the radio interview about Yahweh and Leviathon.
Pilaf1984 1 year ago
Scepticism is the beginning of wisdom.
GARYWERSLEY 1 year ago
The mics are stuck together through duc tap lol
smpunditz 1 year ago 4
@smpunditz The house mics were trash, I had to pull out a 57 and 58 from my filming gear and rig sound for both my cam and the board. I had no mounts so duck tape had to suffice.
HamboneProductions 1 year ago 10
Duct tape factoid: was used to save the lives of astronauts aboard Apollo 13.
MrShysterme 1 month ago
@smpunditz And meanwhile at a mega-church somewhere they're surely installing a brand new theatrical light system including Vari-Lites and LED strips. Oh, and they're buying up ad space that conveniently lands all over freethought videos or all over every video (cough cough "I'm a Mormon" campaign cough). I guess that's what we get for having a woefully less interesting and unsatisfying product: our truth is nowhere near as glamorous or heartwarming as their more fanciful "truth" seems to be.
cerickNY 3 months ago
@smpunditz duct tape
cloudincloudout 3 weeks ago
@cloudincloudout thanks for pointing out that I accidently dropped the last letter of two words OVER A YEAR LATER!! You should become a grammar teacher.
smpunditz 3 weeks ago
Thanks for these, I came across this guy this morning and I am enjoying his talks.
Tridhos 1 year ago
Agree with Price about Earl Doherty's work. I'm reading "Jesus: Neither God nor Man" for the second time. It is a page turner, like a mystery but with more meat.
MetricSU 1 year ago
Ah, the one I've been waiting for :)
rhubarbcub 2 years ago
YES !!!! Thank You Robert for adding The Man Price I found it right after I sent you a request for it :)
SethVincent 2 years ago
Sources mentioned by Robert Price
PART 1
Earl Doherty, _Jesus: Neither God nor Man_ (2009) 2:20
Gregory Boyd & Paul Eddy, _The Jesus Legend_ 4:45
Paul Tillich, _The Dynamics of Faith_ 6:18
gerede1 2 years ago 3
Thanks for adding! Can't wait for the Richard Carrier talk!
Ryansarcade9 2 years ago 6
@Ryansarcade9 So is RC good?? I've heard a lot of bad things about him..
SHIBBYiPANDA 8 months ago