I haven't. It's not a book I feel a need to read, given that I have been studying Christian history for decades. I think Ehrman's How Jesus Became...
I have no idea why you asked me that. What else would I think he was, given my background?
Forgotten. Not taught. Suppressed. Take your pick. None of those things were true for the medieval period. That the earth was round was taught as...
He's an idiot.
I'm saying the info was never lost.
Pretty much.
Like a lot of public scientists, he has a bad tendency to think he is an oracle on all things, including the history of science. Except ... he isn't....
Ummm, no. You keep saying this stupid thing, but nowhere have I ever said or even implied that everyone should know the stuff I know on history. One...
No, you've just decided to read something into my comments that is not there. I actually go out of my way to talk about my admiration for Sagan as a...
Yes. I've already pointed that out to him once.
What? You claimed my review was "shallow". I asked how a extensive, detailed, carefully referenced critique that covers all of her key arguments, has...
(i) I am not /u/smileyman - I post on Reddit as /u/TimONeill and post pretty much everywhere under my own name and avoid pseudonyms. (ii) No-one on...
Really? Please quote me calling them "average".
I'm not sure what this "one trick" you keep referring to is. Knowing what the hell I'm talking about, perhaps? The only "one trick ponies" I see here...
That's because Ehrman knows a few things you don't - hardly surprising, given that he is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious...
Wow. Ummm, no it's not "semantics" - you might want to look up what that word means. I have no idea what search engine my The Wordpress blog platform...
Or "he" (i.e. me) cares enough about history to, occasionally, interact with people on the internet to share 35+ years of reading and research on a...
One more time - I give back what I get. Civil and level headed people here have received perfectly polite responses from me. You did initially as...
What you said was this: "Mr. O'Neill who, ultimately seems to rely on historians that offer him his own personal confirmation bias, if his linked...
Or, as I explained in Post #76 when that Tuckerfan person said it was somehow "weird" that I found this thread: "There is nothing remotely 'weird'...
Wow. Please try to keep up. No, I didn't school you on history. I schooled you on the stupidity of making a sneering attack that you could not...
You made a stupid sneering claim and couldn't back it up when challenged, because you were bluffing. You then whined like a spoiled child when...
I can only go on what I've seen. If he can do more than that kind of flaccid bluffing then that's great. But he tried something stupid with me and...
No, actually. There is a difference between making a solid point or argument that may have a sharp edge or sarcasm to it and the kind of weak...
I always find it funny when someone attacks me with baseless sneering, fails to substantiate it and then starts whining about me being a bully. Again...
So that's two challenges to back up your sneering with substance dodged. Yes - a clear pattern is emerging. Let us know when you have something to...
No, because I don't sit back and let people make baseless sneers. You've failed to back up your "cherry picking" sneer because you know you can't....
Oh, okay. Seems someone's nerves are a little touched. Ummm, hardly. It's just if someone spends a whole lot of words making an accusation that...
I have read the whole of Gibbon twice and own three copies of his Decline and Fall, including two antiquarian editions, so it's not like I'm not a...
There is a difference between having an informed and considered position on a topic and being "biased". My position is backed by the leading current...
She is a journalist who relies on other historians and some of her own reading of the sources. Unfortunately her "examination" ignores what most...
Really? Okay, so can you walk us through how a detailed, carefully referenced, 12,000+ word critique that tackles each of Nixey's main arguments in...
Which brings us back to the issue of what exactly people mean by these terms. Traditionally, the two terms have been used interchangeably. More...
There is little to no sign of any great quickening of technology in the period before the collapse of the Western Empire that sent western Europe...
This is a cute popular idea, but not one that stands up to much scrutiny. Leaving aside the fact there was no single "burning of the Library of...
The evidence is detailed in a number of books on the subject by actual objective scholars. Nixey herself refers to one of them: W.H.C. Frend ,...
Unfortunately that "fact" is substantially wrong. Nixey is working from Moss' research on the persecutions, but Moss is referring to 13 years of...
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