Carrier Fails to Carry His Burden

Bill Cooke reviews and critiques Richard Carrier's The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus (2025), arguing that its case for Jesus mythicism relies on circular reasoning, subjective use of Bayesian statistics, and selective treatment of the historical evidence while ignoring mainstream scholarship on the historical Jesus.

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https://secularhumanism.org/2026/07/carrier-fails-to-carry-his-burden/

About the Author:

Bill Cooke is a senior editor of Free Inquiry and a historian of atheism and humanism. He holds a PhD in religious studies and teaches philosophy and religious studies in Warrington, United Kingdom.

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