“Richard [Carrier] takes the extremist position that Jesus of Nazareth never even existed, that there was no such person in history. This is a position that is so extreme that to call it marginal would be an understatement; it doesn't even appear on the map of contemporary New Testament scholarship.”
"Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?" debate with Richard Carrier, 2009.
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“You will next read the new testament. It is the history of a personage called Jesus.”
1780s, Letter to Peter Carr (1787)
Context: You will next read the new testament. It is the history of a personage called Jesus. Keep in your eye the opposite pretensions 1. of those who say he was begotten by God, born of a virgin, suspended & reversed the laws of nature at will, & ascended bodily into heaven: and 2. of those who say he was a man of illegitimate birth, of a benevolent heart, enthusiastic mind, who set out without pretensions to divinity, ended in believing them, & was Punished capitally for sedition by being gibbeted according to the Roman law which punished the first commission of that offence by whipping, & the second by exile or death in furcâ. <!-- in furca? what?
Source: The God Delusion (2006), p. 122
Quoted in "The First and the Last," 1954.
The First and the Last (1954)
“If reason ruled the world would history even exist?”
Prolegomenon
New Testament History : A Narrative Account (2001)
“If A were not allowed his better position, B would be even worse off than he is.”
Source: A Theory of Justice (1971; 1975; 1999), Chapter II, Section 17, pg. 103