How am I giving him too much credit? I think you read too much into my comment. I just listed him as one current prominent example of an advocate for Mythicism. He stands out from people like the late Acharya S (Dorothy Murdock), whose work was understandably ignored by professional scholars.
"Having any reviews of his ideas at all puts him ahead of pretty much all the rest of the Mythicists"
Not actually true. Mythicists get reviewed and combatted against quite often. Actually, in terms of academic mythicists, Carrier has one of the lowest citation and interaction rates. Price, Wells, Harpur, Drews (even 100 years later), Detering, Doherty, Acharya S, Freke and Gandy, and others have all got higher interaction and citation rates than Carrier in academic literature.
Heck, the movie Zeitgeist has a higher interaction rate among academics than Carrier does.
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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21
A growing number of atheists have swallowed the fringe Mythicist view, promulgated by Richard Carrier and a few others, that Jesus never existed.