{"id":441,"date":"2011-01-15T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/01\/discussing-not-discussing-mythicism-and-harry-christ\/"},"modified":"2011-01-15T16:32:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T16:32:00","slug":"discussing-not-discussing-mythicism-and-harry-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/01\/discussing-not-discussing-mythicism-and-harry-christ.html","title":{"rendered":"Discussing Not Discussing Mythicism (and Harry Christ)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Around the blogs, Loren Rosson talks a bit about whether Jesus existed<\/a>, while Doug Chaplin explains why he doesn\u2019t discuss mythicism as often as creationism<\/a> (or as often as I do).<\/p>\n

Joel Watts draws attention<\/a> to a book<\/a> illustrating one of the more frustrating aspects of mythicism \u2013 its tendency to take modern books (with or without pictures) and assume that any similarities with the Gospels indicate that the latter can be placed in the same genre. <\/p>\n

If one wants to pit apologists for religion and atheism against one another, there are much more fun venues for doing so<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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