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Richard Carrier, PhD @richardcarrier.info · 27/09/2026

So #My9Games is people listing the 9 games that most influenced who they are. Video games. Sorry. Don’t do those. Influenced who I am? All #TTRPG: #D&D #CallofCthulhu #WarhammerFantasy #Palladium #SpaceOpera #Cyberpunk #TopSecret #ArsMagica #Talislanta

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Richard Carrier, PhD @richardcarrier.info · 27/09/2026

On the Progessive Republic podcast talking the Israel Palestine conflict, the genocide, & how we all need to research behind the propaganda. www.youtube.com/watch?v=--As... #genocide #gazagenocide #genocideinpalestine #gaza #freepalestine #neverforget #learnfromthepast #weremember #standuptohatred

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Richard Carrier: Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza

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Richard Carrier, PhD @richardcarrier.info · 10/09/2026

Live this Friday! Yes, brilliant structure in Mark pushes secret messages. We'll talk about the 7 loaves. But also all of Mark's use of doublets, which is intentional & not an accident of his mashing two sources together. www.youtube.com/live/y_y5xuM... #bible #GospelofMark #mythicism #mythology

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Jesus’ Feeding Miracles Were Never About Food | Richard Carrier PhD

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Richard Carrier, PhD @richardcarrier.info · 04/09/2026

Live in under an hour! + I am launching my associated blog now, "The Mystery of the Seven Loaves as Mythographic Composition in Mark" (link in reply). This will be a centerpiece of what we discuss tonight! www.youtube.com/live/nhJw34q... #bible #saintpaul #GospelofMark #mythology #literature

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Did Jesus Mention Paul? Richard Carrier on the Gospels' Pauline Jesus

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Richard Carrier, PhD @richardcarrier.info · 02/09/2026

Did Mark include a hidden prophecy of Paul in the words of Jesus? Is Mark's entire Gospel just a reification of the letters of Paul? Find out this Friday. Discussion. Q&A. Calendar the show and join us! www.youtube.com/live/nhJw34q... #bible #saintpaul #GospelofMark #mythology #literature

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Did Jesus Mention Paul? Richard Carrier on the Gospels' Pauline Jesus

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Richard Carrier, PhD @richardcarrier.info · 26/08/2026

My monthly recommendations again go off my usual train to commend three lay books that are remarkably good and do things no one else (not even academics) are doing but should. Check them all out! ... h/t bescofield.bsky.social #Jesus #Yahweh #Bible #history www.richardcarrier.info/archives/43987

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Richard Carrier, PhD @richardcarrier.info · 24/08/2026

Probably late 70s because of its emulation of the JW of Josephus which was published c 76. It seems too urgently responding to the war so I doubt it can be very much later. But doesn’t know about the second war. So no later than 120s. Which makes the 1st c ms. argument already a non sequitur.

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Richard Carrier, PhD @richardcarrier.info · 19/08/2026

Interesting followup Edouard Tahmizian on The #Freethinker Podcast on the manipulative and self-contradictory ideas Christians have about #freewill which have fooled even #atheists #philosophy who don't know their mind has been covertly colonized by #christianity www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoLn...

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Libertarian Free Will Doesn't Exist & The Problem of Evil (Richard Carrier)

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Richard Carrier, PhD @richardcarrier.info · 13/08/2026

The director’s channel has been taken down by YouTube for no intelligible reason. Looks like another channel death by robot. Hopefully it gets solved.

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Richard Carrier, PhD @richardcarrier.info · 13/08/2026

Pinning this here for future reflection: DOGE was supposed to ferret waste, instead it just hunted enemies. But this is an example of the kind of actual waste a serious DOGE could have gotten rid of. But those boyturds were too busy j3rking off in eachothrs faces. www.propublica.org/article/gene...

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Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing

General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a...

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Richard Carrier, PhD @richardcarrier.info · 13/08/2026

Hot tip. When YouTube accidentally unlists an archived video, you can still get to it using the original live link (which you can easily find where it was announced originally, like on my FB wall, my Bluesky stream, or even in this case my blog article about it): www.youtube.com/live/v1H81Hc...

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🔴 Pre-Christian Jews EXPECTED a Dying-And-Rising Messiah ft. Richard Carrier

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Richard Carrier, PhD @richardcarrier.info · 11/08/2026

A reminder that the Rocket City Reason #conference is this October in #huntsvillealabama #Alabama I'll be tabling so you can get books signed. And there's a great speaker lineup. Get your tickets and make your plans! rocketcityreason.com #atheism #freethought #skepticism #humanism

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Richard Carrier, PhD @richardcarrier.info · 07/08/2026

The forty plus scholars my article summarizes are. That’s literally the point of the article. So, if you think that matters, you’ve got over forty experts to answer to.

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Richard Carrier, PhD @richardcarrier.info · 05/08/2026

I have a new peer-reviewed publication out: Pre-Christian Jews Expected a Dying-and-Rising Messiah; and I'll be discussing it live and taking questions this Friday. Calendar it and join us! www.youtube.com/live/v1H81Hc... #jesus #judaism #dyingmessiah #bible #talmud #deadseascrolls

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🔴 Pre-Christian Jews EXPECTED a Dying-And-Rising Messiah ft. Richard Carrier

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Richard Carrier, PhD @richardcarrier.info · 26/07/2026

Modern Atheism & I discuss the latest #bayesian arg for the #resurrection of #jesus via #maximaldata (or #formalizedgullibility ) & the #historicalreportage model (or Taking #Apologetics Back 100 Years). This is just fun. I'll pub a formal & detailed blog on it soon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgAX...

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Refuting Than's Bayesian case for the Resurrection - with Dr. Richard Carrier

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Richard Carrier, PhD @richardcarrier.info · 24/07/2026

"Orcas ,,, made headlines ... teaming up to ram and sink yachts." Political thriller. "Some orcas ... have worn dead salmon as hats. Others drape seal intestines over their fins or take turns tossing sea lion pelts into the air." Horror movie. A very diverse species. www.cnn.com/2026/07/23/s...

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Watch an orca ram a sunfish so hard that the fish explodes | CNN

How hard do you have to ram a fish to make it explode? Ask an orca.

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Richard Carrier, PhD @richardcarrier.info · 21/07/2026

I'll be live tomorrow (the evening of the 22nd) discussing what role #AI could play in being our #morals #advisor (our #Moses as it were), helping or even surpassing us in ascertaining #ObjectiveTruth in #moralfacts and #MoralPhilosophy ... www.youtube.com/live/Mg7zN8E...

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Can AI Help Us Understand Morality

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Richard Carrier, PhD @richardcarrier.info · 15/07/2026

Funny thing is, these are the same jokers who keep claiming the argument from embarrassment proves these things true, yet in context, pagan heroes were exactly the same. Romulus murdered his brother. Attis castrated himself in a pique. Odysseus was a scoundrel. Hercules a cheater.

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Richard Carrier, PhD @richardcarrier.info · 14/07/2026

End of year or early next. Shortly after will be my anthology of my peer reviewed philosophy papers (the sequel to Hitler Homer which was all my history papers).

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Richard Carrier, PhD @richardcarrier.info · 13/07/2026

As I near completing the rewrite of my first book (Sense & Goodness without God, to become A Better World w/o God) I made a reference article for it on #SocialJustice showing how my #philosophy grounds & delimits it, supplementing a new section on the subject. www.richardcarrier.info/archives/43406

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My Starter Kit in Social Justice • Richard Carrier Blogs

My website’s category dropdown menu includes many social justice issues like racism, sexism, ableism, classism, privilege, feminism and men’s issues, gender and transgenderism, gay pride, culture, env...

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Richard Carrier, PhD @richardcarrier.info · 08/07/2026

I'll be blogging about #BartEhrman 's awful new book about #Jesus and #Christianity eventually (it's on my schedule). But this very revealing article just dropped from cult-hunter Be Scofield establishing the context everyone needs for it: thesaviorcomplex.substack.com/p/the-jesus-...

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The Jesus Apologists: How Bart Ehrman’s “Love Thy Stranger” Protects His Image

Bart Ehrman's new book reveals how far critical Jesus studies still have to go—and how much even skeptical scholarship continues to polish his story.

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Richard Carrier, PhD @richardcarrier.info · 07/07/2026

Yeah. Definitely. A lot of people don’t know the details though (the way Avalos and Murray hit the point with evidence and examples and why it’s bad even though it is of course better than conservative). So I’m looking for detailed treatments, if any exists.

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Richard Carrier, PhD @richardcarrier.info · 06/07/2026

e.g. Hector Avalos has a good chapter on this in The End of Biblical Studies & there are a few brief chs. in Murray's Atheist's Primer on point. But I want the best whole articles & books. An almost good example is Hollinger's book in light of Lazare's review of it at artsfuse.org/261600/book-...

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Book Review: "Christianity’s American Fate" - Too Much Double-Talk - The Arts Fuse

Religion is false, unscientific, and morally dubious, and any discussion that doesn’t take that as its starting point will end up going astray.

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Richard Carrier, PhD @richardcarrier.info · 06/07/2026

Unusual query (maybe the #christian #deconstruction community might know?): I need a bibliography on why liberal Christianity is not that great compared to just going all to secular humanism. Most "secular is better" books only contrast conservative Christianity. I need the other kind. Suggestions?

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