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My recent posts about mythicism, responding to Larry Moran and Jerry Coyne, has sparked discussion on other blogs. See the posts by Don Burrows<\/a>, Tim O\u2019Neill at a brand new blog called \u201cHistory for Atheists,\u201d<\/a> and Chris Eyre<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I also had a piece by Brent Lyons<\/a> drawn to my attention, in which he discusses the pitfalls he fell into when he first started skeptically questioning the historicity of Jesus.<\/p>\n

Any other posts on this topic that I have missed?<\/p>\n

$\"Jesus$ <\/p>\n

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