{"id":2943,"date":"2010-03-04T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T11:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/03\/suffering-from-mythdrawal\/"},"modified":"2010-03-04T11:16:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T11:16:00","slug":"suffering-from-mythdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/03\/suffering-from-mythdrawal.html","title":{"rendered":"Suffering From Mythdrawal?"},"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>If you\u2019re <strike>mything<\/strike> missing discussing mythicism, John Loftus has taken up the torch of historical Jesus discussion, <a href=\"http:\/\/debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/did-napoleon-ever-exist.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">posting on whether Napoleon existed<\/a>, as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/vinny-on-why-i-am-agnostic-about.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">interacting<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/youcallthisculture.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/why-i-am-agnostic-about-historical_6374.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Vince Hart\u2019s professed agnosticism<\/a> about the\u00a0existence of\u00a0Jesus. So there are plenty of places you can continue the conversation, if you\u2019re so inclined. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure the Napoleon comparison will be helpful to the discussion, however, since\u00a0historians expect there to be much more evidence for a political ruler and military leader than for an itinerant teacher or exorcist. But presumably the point is that it is possible to doubt the existence of just about anyone and anything, including individuals and events that would be expected to leave behind better historical evidence and in fact have done so, and so the ability of mythicists to doubt the existence of Jesus doesn\u2019t do anything other than provide yet another instance of this phenomenon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-8187399146181167836?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re mything missing discussing mythicism, John Loftus has taken up the torch of historical Jesus discussion, posting on whether Napoleon existed, as well as interacting with Vince Hart\u2019s professed agnosticism about the\u00a0existence of\u00a0Jesus. So there are plenty of places you can continue the conversation, if you\u2019re so inclined. I\u2019m not sure the Napoleon comparison [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Suffering From Mythdrawal?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If you&#039;re mything missing discussing mythicism, John Loftus has taken up the torch of historical Jesus discussion, posting on whether Napoleon existed, as\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/03\/suffering-from-mythdrawal.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Suffering From Mythdrawal?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If you&#039;re mything missing discussing mythicism, John Loftus has taken up the torch of historical Jesus discussion, posting on whether Napoleon existed, as\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/03\/suffering-from-mythdrawal.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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