Richard Carrier
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“”If you don't hear it from me, be skeptical of it.
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| —Richard Carrier[1] |
Richard Carrier (b. 1969) is an American historian, author and atheist. Carrier is well known as an author on Infidels.org.
Carrier is a big advocate of atheism, as well as metaphysical naturalism. Carrier openly doubts the historicity of Jesus. He has also written of his doubts on Hitler's Table Talk, a collection of private conversations between Adolf Hitler and his confidants which suggest that Hitler was an atheist (despite years of personal affirmations to Christianity in speeches and books), citing authors' bias, differing accounts, and problems with translations between German, French, and English.
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[edit] Biography
Carrier knows five languages, comes from a freethinking Methodist family, and is married to Jennifer Robin Paynter (now Carrier) since 1995. He served in the United States Coast Guard for two years (1990-1992). He has a Ph.D. in Ancient History from Columbia University (2008). Among other organizations, he's a member of the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
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- Sense and Goodness without God: A Defense of Metaphysical Naturalism (AuthorHouse: 2005).
- The Empty Tomb: Jesus Beyond The Grave (Prometheus: 2005), edited by Robert Price & Jeffery Jay Lowder.
- Not the Impossible Faith, (Lulu: 2009).
- Why I Am Not a Christian: Four Conclusive Reasons to Reject the Faith (Philosophy Press: 2011).
- Proving History: Bayes's Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus (Prometheus Books: 2012).
- On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt (Sheffield Phoenix Press: 2014).
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[edit] Footnotes
- ↑ Wisconsin Atheists. "Richard Carrier: The Historicity of Jesus." YouTube. 2012 July 2.