Carrier is obviously a globalist, neo-communist promoting the atheism that Lenin and Stalin enacted in the Luciferian spirit of Josef Mengele. Stay tuned to the end if you are lazy and gullible and wish to be deceived and brainwashed.

This gay dude is ignorant

Not that the Premise is wrong But that its Counter is so Monumentally Engrained that your Attire...lacks 🤔

Seems obvs .

this kind of thing only works when there is zero pushback from other experts. SUPER cherry picked data

You need to watch Cesars Messiah. It will blow ur mind. And prove its Titus Story. The Flavian Cesar. The guy who burned down the temple is 70 AD. Josephus copied the story to plagerise it happened to Jesus 40 years earlier. Titus cut down the fruit trees to starve the citizens of Jerusalem. before he went in and destryed the temple. Same as Jesus and Mosis copying...but on steroids.

THE GOSPELS DO NAME THEIR AUTHORS! THEY EXPLICITLY STATE "THE EVANGELION ACCORDING TO MARK," WHICH MEANS "MARK ATTESTS TO THE TRUTH OF THE STORY BY THE SPIRIT-WORD OF GOD AS ITS WITNESS"

The Hermetic Wisdom in Allegory

To be fair. It’s likely there was a historical Jesus involved with or became the leader of the movement that became Christianity and knew of various prophecies from cultures and religions along with the Jewish ones. Thus choose to do or speak about the same things that were prophesied like riding a donkey, breaking bread and having his followers eat it. Don’t reinvent the wheel. Also if you can actually make a wildly known myth or prophecy or replicate a historical event everyone knows via actually doing it in real life…then do it. It would help establish your legacy and get people believing and spread you by word of mouth faster. I was thought Jesus actually went out of his way purposely replicating things prior prophets, myths, historical figures did that everyone would recognize and know the reference. He did it constantly to drive his message home to listeners and to make himself believable. So early Christians probably did this in their NT writing with fictional accounts but Jesus also most likely and purposefully was doing the same thing during his life and claiming similar feats. Also the Pharisees were in much larger in number and power and held Hierarchical authority and significance in judea and Jewish culture. Essenes were like Amish/hippie communes/homeless encampments. In the desert. NT writers didn’t reference them because they were of no importance nor did their audiences interact nor would interact with them ever.

Dear Richard Carrier, please make your lecture a little bit more rhythmic.

Genesis says that God create the earth before he created the universe. That is a proven myth. Thus the rest of the bible is a book of myths as well.

Balaam's donkey doesn't pass any criteria.

This guy full of it even he knows the gospels were written in the time of Jesus the gospels were taken from the notes the decibels took down following Jesus they are witness statements.

DARE these fakes to take on ISLAM.... Tell us about THEIR prophet.

It’s a testament to the power of indoctrination and motivated reasoning that people would read an ancient book with talking animals, giants, zombies, magic spells, people living inside animals, a global flood and don’t immediately identify it as obvious mythology.

Pigs were "unclean" in mosaic tradition. that seems a likely why.

Atheists!😅 You're going to have fun when the Lord arrives. The fun part, you won't even know it's him. Read parts of Isaiah to get goosebumps.

sounds like Scrooge & his partner Jacob Marley?

in the year 2024, if you don't even know that religious texts are myth, you're out of your goddamn mind.

One thing that keeps you from the truth is the belief that you already have it

Those writers of the books in the Bibles were good storytellers!😂😂😂

What would the authors of the gospels think if they knew that 2000 years later billions of human being would live their lives as if the gospels were literally true.

what does this guy have against hammers, constantly ridiculing them.. probably one of the most used beneficial tools in history . quite the opposite of the disciples

Biblical literalism IS NOT thinking that when Jesus said “I am the door to eternal life”, that he is a wooden door with hinges on it… but that’s what I was taught by my literalist parents growing up.

What do we do with all of our cult heroes after they die? We begin to attribute superhuman feats.

Lies and half-truths are Carrier's tools of trade. It's a profitable trade supported by the clueless and lazy who need an excuse to avoid the truth.

im from ethiopia, largely a christian country brought by our kings for perfect social order washing brain for centuaries,,,sad,,,,,,we africans must wake up now and have our own indiginious religions if at all we need religion to strive like majority of indians and chinese etc, the so called abrahamic religions are solely propaganda by the ROMANS,,i knew they are fake as childhood but i was wondering how a group of people could make such perfect fictions,,then now i realized that they have been copied from other ancient philosophical thoughts mainly from zudiac mr jeshuoa being SUN,,, wake up

Thousands of dead men crawling out of their graves and walking around would be reported by WAY more people than just 12 jews. Especially in an era where recording your criminal justice, your pottery, your violent games and even your own morality on a variety of topics ARE reported.

Man, that was good!!!

Has someone who spent the last 30 years going through the Bible I'm really quite depressed when I see that this video has had 2.8 k dislikes and only 15K likes. I'm happy got 1.3 million views but here's the truth about the Bible The Bible is full of lies and myths you can say that the Bible is true all you want but the Bible itself is a giant load of crap if you evaluate it critically you can never unevaluate it this is one of the reasons why if you are someone who has integrity you need to evaluate Bibles in books honestly. Jesus at least based on everything I've been able to study was a fictional person there is no hard evidence actually showing that this man ever actually existed and I've looked into it and looked into it and looked into it and I can't find anything nothing All I find as proof that Jesus existed was from people who were alive hundreds of years after Jesus. People like Josephus except Josephus was a Jew who constantly changed his mind when people grabbed him he was always and I mean always changing his mind he was not the kind of person you should take seriously. But historians in this case Bible teachers absolutely love him. Because he supports their bias narrative and this is the problem with people who are after a narrative and not after the actual truth. And it's really quite annoying. How people in the United States and worldwide will believe s*** without any good reason. Outside of their biased understanding. There is no evidence that Jesus Christ ever existed sorry to say this to everyone but this is the hard truth The fact that so many Americans believe this trash is because it's a belief there's no actual evidence supporting it hence the term belief. And this is one of the main reasons why nobody should take the Bible seriously Read it for yourself evaluate it Go into the subjects of the verses do it there's nothing wrong with evaluating but for the love people really need to stop lying. There is no hard evidence Jesus ever existed none if I was to sit down and say that I have evidence that so and so. Existed a thousand years ago or let's say a hundred years ago to make it simpler and all I have is my claims that's not evidence that's me claiming stuff that I could not possibly know. but again to the brainwashed mentally ill people out there who claimed have integrity while believing in fantasy novels this is the kind of b******* I have to deal with people who claim absolutes with no actual knowledge of the subjects they're talking about. But at this point I'm just beating a dead horse if grown ass adults cannot get past their own bull crap and they can't be honest with themselves That's not my problem it's just depressing to watch imbeciles do this

I'd love to know if Carrier has seen CAESAR'S MESSIAH on KZbin. The person asserts that the life of Jesus is modelded after one of the Caesars. The fishers of men thing comes from the Roman soldiers sinking the jewish fisherman's boats then spearing them in the water.

Well done video. I can just hear all the theists making their lame claims against what is said here. I find it at least incredibly sad that so many people are still so mentally and emotionally insecure as to believe in religion and at worst people are monsterous enough to use religion to harm others because of their fears. If you have faith in things without evidence, you are living wrong.

I am doing the Antichrist test on this guy. He passes with flying colors.

Of course, they are myth. Hard to believe anyone would still take the Gospels seriously.

It's amazing what stories you can create when you're schizophrenic and or tripping out on hallucinogenic drugs!

Religionists, don’t waste your limited time on bullshit…. You have better things to do … try to understand the universe you were born into…. at least to some small fraction !

1) Analogies to myths is not evidence of a whole-cloth fabrication; that's just an inference. 2) It's not even an inference to the best explanation, as a historical figure who was later deified by his followers requires fewer assumptions than the notion of a conspiracy to fabricate a non-existent person.

Makes sense that in the Gospel written to appeal to the imperial Romans there's more stories adapting the stories of conquest (but by the good guys) from the Torah

Most confusing lecture I’ve ever heard, had to turn it off.

1:23:36 That moment when Richard Carrier invokes God.

Moron

I love the "yeah, this is obviously fiction, let's consider it as such" attitude here. Yes!

17:18 Weather Moses could walk on water or not is irrelevant. He parted the Red Sea so ALL the Israelites could walk across.

It's pretty clear that a man called Jesus existed, and something extraordinary happened. It may not be to the letter of what's written in the New Testament, but there was something about this man that caused people to die for their belief in him, something that has reverberated down the generations for 2,000 years, and people still encounter him to this day. He also changed Western Civilisation through Christianity, and even those who don't call themself Christian, mostly live according to Christian values. Even Richard Dawkins has recently called himself a "cultural Christian".

It's funny because if religious fanatics with power AstroTurf the Fulfillment of so-called prophecy then the faithful can run around claiming that prophecy is being fulfilled. It is so obvious that the Jewish establishment in Christian Zionism are working together hand-in-hand to AstroTurf prophecies. Having radical Christian zionists from Texas breed red heifers it's just one example.

This lecture is abysmal. The very first argument he spewed was a logical fallacy. Insane that people think he has any credibility or intellect.

Another poor soul who will answer to God for spreading lies.

Mythologies convey truths that words themselves cannot.

Death is just separation from God silly

Great research, Lazarus 'Jesus' best friend boyfriend story sure adds a new wrinkle, thank you