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It is ironic that Richard Carrier\u2019s blog post<\/a> which accuses me of lying about his work blatantly misrepresents what I wrote. No one who has read things I\u2019ve written \u2013 or listened to\u00a0 things I\u2019ve said<\/a> \u2013 would ever believe that I claimed that the Gospels have\u00a0no<\/em> symbolic stories in them, when I have so often<\/a> said the opposite<\/a>. The infancy stories (which I\u2019ve discussed before<\/a>)\u00a0in the Gospels\u00a0are just\u00a0that \u2013 and are much like the infancy stories told about other historical figures<\/a> besides Jesus.<\/p>\n

But people who have read what I have written are presumably not Carrier\u2019s intended audience.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m guessing that the criticisms I\u2019ve offered in my recent articles must be too damaging to mythicism\u00a0for Carrier\u00a0to respond to them in a manner that is professional, scholarly, and fair,\u00a0so that instead he is resorting to deception and expletives. But goodness me, if you can\u2019t deal with criticism in a rational and mature manner, you really shouldn\u2019t try to produce something that even pretends to be scholarship, never mind the actual thing.<\/p>\n

It has been an interesting day \u2013 two people have ranted about me online, with fundamentalist complaints, yet from opposite sides of the spectrum!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"