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Old 09-13-2013, 05:28 PM   #1
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When I try to access Earl Doherty's website ( www.jesuspuzzle.humanists.net ) I get this message:

You see this page because there is no Web site at this address.

Anyone else having this problem? Any information why it might have been taken down (if it was)?

Thanks in advance
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Old 09-13-2013, 06:04 PM   #2
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It looks like a domain name problem on the part of humanists.net
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*rushes off to register humanists.net* :devil1:

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Hmmm,
works OK for me now.

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I posted a link to Earl's site in a discussion I was having on a Catholic site just before I discovered that the link wasn't working. Just to show how much respect those Catholics had for my contribution to the discussion: not a single one complained that the link wouldn't work.
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I posted a link to Earl's site in a discussion I was having on a Catholic site just before I discovered that the link wasn't working. Just to show how much respect those Catholics had for my contribution to the discussion: not a single one complained that the link wouldn't work.
Could you post the link of that Catholic site? Thanks.
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I posted a link to Earl's site in a discussion I was having on a Catholic site just before I discovered that the link wasn't working. Just to show how much respect those Catholics had for my contribution to the discussion: not a single one complained that the link wouldn't work.
Could you post the link of that Catholic site? Thanks.
http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=820516

To give you an idea of how conservative that site is, consider the fact that both evolution and atheism are banned topics (ostensibly because they lead to arguments).
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I can't tell you what's going on at humanists.net, but corn's link works OK now, and so do

www.jesuspuzzle.com
www.jesuspuzzle.org
www.ageofreason.org

all of which rerout to the same entry page where you can go either to Age of Reason or the Jesus Puzzle site.

Regular visitors will know that I have not added any new material to either site in quite a while, at least a couple of years or more. Why? To some extent I've lost interest. My last notable writing job was the series on Vridar rebutting Bart Ehrman's recent defence of an HJ, which I converted to an e-book. At this point, I have no plans to undertake any further research, much less write another book.

Incidentally, I am almost sold out of the initial run of Jesus: Neither God Nor Man. I will not be reprinting it, as it is available as an e-book. Part of that is due to my reaction to piracy experiences over the last few years, partly because storing and shipping books in a small basement has become a burden. I have plenty of copies of The Jesus Puzzle still in stock, as well as Challenging the Verdict: A Cross-Examination of Lee Strobel's The Case for Christ. Most of the latter (in the hundreds) I am offering to give away to any group willing to take them off my hands and pay the shipping. I think they would be an asset to a University Humanist or Atheist group looking to counter the Campus Crusade for Christ's use of Lee Strobel's book. I'm about to try my local universities first.

Anyway, it's been a long run. 30 years of research, writing and publishing. I'm getting on. I'm not overly tired, just largely burned out. (My last experience on FRDB didn't help any.) Answering Ehrman was my last hurrah, and it was fun. But I'm moving on to a different task, more humanitarian than humanist, with a love interest involved! (How's that for a closing tease?)

P.S. I once quipped that in the history of Jesus Mythicism I would probably end up a footnote. People like Richard Carrier, who is much better placed than I am and much better at self-promotion, will no doubt eclipse me shortly, and the odd established scholar (like Thomas Brodie) is beginning to make a splash in the ranks. Bob Price, of course, continues to do his heavy lifting.
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Earl:

Thanks for everything you've done. If it weren't for your efforts I'd be a lot more ignorant (than I am still).

I think your work will always be like one of those big boulders found in popular white water rafting rivers. Everyone knows it's there and have to plan ahead to navigate around it or get smashed against it.

Muchos gratias!
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Mr. Doherty,

Thanks for taking the heat and opening up the field. I am hoping we get past the "hero" stage, of whom I think Darrell Doughty deserves the greatest thanks. I'd like to see system work work done along the very lines Dr. Doughty called for, a verse by verse analysis of the NT and who wrote each, when and why.

When we are in hero mode it's individuals and its exhausting. And of course as individuals you can easily get off course or fall into self promotion. The latter is a sin that causes one to stop learning, and become a political hack defending one's views.

But again thank you. You are a hero.

- SGW
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