David Fitzgerald’s Review of David Skrbina’s Amateur Jesus Hoax
A Note from the Editor: I rarely publish guest articles on my blog. But this one, by my friend David Fitzgerald (author and journalist), is exceptional and is being stalled by other venues to avoid publishing it. Since I pretty much agree with all of it, and this...Recommendations in the Philosophy of History
I teach online correspondence courses every month in philosophy and history, and I highly recommend you check them out. It’s a great way to get in some guided self-learning, with a whole month of being able to pick my brain about the subject for a very...Christianity in Hitler’s Ideology: The Definitive Study
I’ve long pointed out that attempts to make Hitler and the Nazis into atheists is counterfactual propaganda. They were stalwartly and predominately Christian, and largely driven by Christian motives. I’ve covered this several times (in Hitler Homer Bible...Hansen’s Contribution to the James in Josephus Debate
There is a valuable new study by Chrissy Hansen, “Josephus and the Murder of James: An Argument Against Some Common Wisdom,” in the new journal Studies of Biblical Interest 2 (2025). I don’t agree with its conclusion but I think it’s a quality...T.C. Schmidt on James in Josephus: Apologetics vs. History
After Exposing T.C. Schmidt’s Oxford Apologetics for the Testimonia Flaviana altogether (and his fellow Christians failed to rescue him), I now shall address his appendix on my case against Josephus referring to the Christian Jesus when relating the execution of a...The Ontology of Moral Facts
Fifteen years ago I was asked to give a lecture to Christian high school students on “the ontology of morality,” which I did using clips from movies and television shows to illustrate the physical instantiation of moral facts in interacting human systems....Errata for Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus
This page will be continually updated. The first section lists typos that will be fixed in a future printing. The second lists additions or changes that might be implemented in a future edition but for now are usefully available here. One error has already been...How to Use Pseudo-AI
Pseudo-AI is garbage and a bubble. And AI content is banned in comments on my blog. Yet people are still gullibly over-trusting AI chatbots, constantly sending me chatbot content and gushing over how brilliant it is and proves whatever they want. I have to explain...On Being Childish vs. Paying Attention: Buffoons vs. Bayes, Aristotle Edition
A childish Philosophical Muser tried claiming there are “errors” in this month’s article on The Historicity of Aristotle. And boy, if only you saw my DMs from this bozo. You will already get an idea from the article I just linked. But his DMs are...Public Zoom on Josephus and Bayes
This video is now publicly available. I am keeping the original announcement below. But to watch see The Knowledge Nexus. The de-animated slides are available here (but the usual advisory: the slides are not the lecture, so don’t just read the slides and think...The Historicity of Aristotle
In my new book The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus I show mathematically why we are so confident in the existence of most ancient persons, and why we get different results for Jesus when we hold him to the same standard as everyone else—in the second...My Monthly Recommendation: The Fitzgerald Series on World Religion
Every month I will write about something I recommend buying and why. Still shopping for Christmas? Want to get me a commission for my birthday? Here’s the way! I am an Amazon Associate, so if you click through the sales link in any of these recommendation...If Even Hobbits Could Build Advanced Civilizations, So Could Women: How Being Bad at Reasoning Sustains Antifeminist Mythologies
I dare the manosphere to mock Tolkien! “Hobbits are stupid and should be erased from Lord of the Rings because they’re too weak to build things, so obviously they’d have actually all starved to death or something.” Hobbits are way too woke to...How Pseudo-Rationality Grounds Conservative Worldviews: My Debatecon Followup
This month I was invited to two debates at Debatecon 6 in Nashville hosted by Modern Day Debate: the existence of God with Michael Jones of Inspiring Philosophy and Christian Nationalism vs. Secular Humanism with Andrew Wilson. It was okay. But I have thoughts....Discussing the New Book Today and Tuesday
Heads up to all my patrons! Tonight I’ll be discussing The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus, which is now shipping in the US (and it should soon beyond, although our dumb trade war might be slowing that), on the Godless Granny show early this evening...Get Dr. Carrier’s Latest!
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