Johnny Skeptic

Richard Carrier sent me the following e-mail:

For all who are interested, author, historian, and philosopher Richard
Carrier has finally surrendered to the 21st century and launched his
own blog.

http://www.richardcarrier.blogspot.com

I shall be using this blog to announce my upcoming appearances and any
new books or articles I publish, but also on occasion I will import
some "best of the best" email or forum post of mine on sundry subjects,
though mainly on ancient science and religion and modern science and
natural philosophy. The inaugural post also contains links to every
other website that is about me or that lists my available writings
online, which I will keep updated if any URLs change. This coming week
will see more post activity than will be usual (you'll see at least two
entries there already and another is going up tomorrow), since I'm
moving a backlog of stuff onto the blog, but you can expect me to add a
blog entry at least once a month from then on.

Ruhan

Thanks for the link JS.

It looks like the beginning of a great blog.

Johnny Skeptic

You are welcome. Readers should be interested to know that Richard expects have his Ph.D. sometime within the next two years. The title Dr. Carrier does have a certain appeal.

Ruhan

It sounds better than Dr. Dick.

Seriously though, I am quite excited about this. The content in the Infidels library can be difficult to navigate through for new visitors and he has brought some of his previous work to the fore to be more visible.

I was discussing this with another ex-minister during the week that only left the ministry 6 months ago (I left the ministry 8 years ago). During this period you still have many theological issues to reconcile that haunt you late at night. Having this level of polemic available via a blog format does make it much more accessible.

Ted Hoffman

Thanks. I have followed the link and am now seeing his interview and debates on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CQKxq6gkTc
And thanks to youtube

Solo

"Why do you prate of God ?" said Meister Eckhart, "Don't you know that whatever you say is untrue ?"

The debate strikes me as pedestrian. Richard Carrier's mission I read as an attempt to resurrect 19th century science to clobber 4th century superstitions.

Who, in their right mind, would want to argue with a religious fundamentalist ?

For those who are less politically, and more philosophically inclined, may I offer an excellent introduction into modern thinking on the nature of consciousness, physics, and reality (or via: amazon.co.uk).

Jiri

Ted Hoffman

Your statement reminds me if this guy. Carrier should probably listen to him.

Ted Hoffman

Anybody knows where I can find the transcript of the debate between Price and Atwill - the infamous debate that left Price with a "bad taste" in his mouth?

Johnny Skeptic

Anyone who wants to reduce their political power, which includes me. Many fundamentalists who give up being fundamentalist Christians and become liberal Christians, agnostics, or atheists change their political views. That is a good thing. The U.S. is a very divided country. Many political elections are decided by just a few votes. I once discussed this with Richard Carrier by telephone. If I recall correctly, he agreed with me that if fundamentalist Christians would stop trying to legislate their religious views, he would do something different with his life.

No Robots

Here is Todd Hanson, head writer of The Onion talking about meta-nerds:

They supposedly hate something so much, but are still paying enough attention to everything about it to be motivated to write long screeds against it on the internet.