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Being candid, I'm disappointed in the House Democrats. Participating in punishing the closest thing to bipartisanship we have seen in the House is not good for the health of our government. It would have made sense for the Democrats to support McCarthy in exchange for some concessions — if McCarthy...

Setting a precedent of going after Trump's lawyers for legally challenging the election results, something Dershowitz admitted doing the same thing when he represented Al Gore in 2000, will ultimately destroy rule of law in the US. And Biden did meet with the DOJ and likely encouraged them to prose...

There genuinely is an effort afoot to keep Trump off the ballot based on the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, which says: Section 3 . No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the Unit...

Where can I see or read this debate? It's hosted on Hamblin and Jenkins' blogs on Patheos. The complete table of contents for it was put together by Jenkins on a page of his university's website that seems to have disappeared. You can find that page on the Wayback Machine here , though, inconvenien...

I recently came across a series of videos by a scholar named Kipp Davis picking apart Richard Carrier's use of Jewish texts in his claims about the Jesus myth: link . Davis isn't the foremost expert out there, but judging by his list of academic publications , his credentials are better than those o...

Birch was a paleocon piece of crap. Change my mind. The society was not founded by John Birch but named after him after his death. If you're referring to the founder of the society, that was Robert Welch , who was pretty much the Platonic ideal of a paleocon piece of crap. As for Birch, he exhibite...

This was an attempted coup -- to overturn the results of a lawful election -- and back it up with violence against American citizens using the U.S. military. Thank you for laying it out like that. Trump tried to become a dictator. MsJack is right: anyone supporting him now is betraying the United S...

The most likely explanation for Christianity would seem to me to include some kind of unlikely event around Jesus's death. That unusual thing would have given super-charged confidence and enthusiasm to the dead leader's followers. If the time isn't ripe for something to grow, a core of committed su...

Res Ipsa wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 27, 2023 3:04 am

In both cases, we should see parallels to then existing myths. That being the case, the parallels are of no evidential value and we should discard them as irrelevant to the question we are asking.

Exactly.

I like Carrier's approach over yours only in that he takes a list of criteria then applies the stories of these characters checking off anytime they meet the criteria. This approach has major problems, which have already been discussed . It's less biased it seems to me, than to take a bunch of char...