{"id":1660,"date":"2010-02-08T23:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/02\/discussion-of-mythicism-spreads\/"},"modified":"2010-02-08T23:44:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T23:44:00","slug":"discussion-of-mythicism-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/02\/discussion-of-mythicism-spreads.html","title":{"rendered":"Discussion of Mythicism Spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>The discussion of mythicism that has been taking place mostly here and at Vridar has now spread to at least two discussion boards: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkatheist.com\/profiles\/blogs\/sunday-school-feb-7-2010-1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Think Atheist<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freeratio.org\/showthread.php?t=282760\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Freethought and Rationalism Discussion Board<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think I have enough to deal with in terms of the discussion here, but if any readers are members of either site, you may want to join in the discussions there.<\/p>\n<p>All I\u2019ll say for now is that I encourage the atheists and freethinkers at these forums to live up to their principles and reputations. You rightly stand against pseudoscience in favor of mainstream science. Don\u2019t be easily duped into discarding mainstream scholarship in history because a few fringe folks have made a plausible sounding case that appeals to what you\u2019d like to be true. You know better than that. Inform yourselves about rigorous mainstream scholarship in history just as you\u2019d want creationists to do with the natural sciences. It\u2019s the right thing to do, and you know it. By all means, make up your own minds. But don\u2019t <em>just<\/em> listen to fringe views expressed on the internet and in self-published books. You know where that road leads, and have surely criticized others for following that path. I don\u2019t ask for any sort of special hearing for any particular viewpoint. I just ask you to be true to your principles!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-5024703618742895980?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The discussion of mythicism that has been taking place mostly here and at Vridar has now spread to at least two discussion boards: Think Atheist and the Freethought and Rationalism Discussion Board. 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