I agree completely with Matthew Paul Turner that it is in bad taste to make the comparison as a response to visiting a Holocaust exhibit<\/a>. It is not that the comparison does not make a valid point, but there is a moral atrocity in denying the reality of the Holocaust that simply is not matched in Jesus-mythicism.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Compared to historians and scholars dealing with Jesus mythicists, those who tackle other forms of denialism seem to have it somewhat easier \u2013 or would, if denialism could be combated with logic of the sort illustrated in this XKCD cartoon: In related news, while I myself have used the comparison between the tactics used by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[882,2591,2592,4660,4703,4705,5677,7674,7853,7903,7992],"class_list":["post-8261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mythicism","tag-atrocity","tag-denial","tag-denialism","tag-history","tag-holocaust","tag-holocaust-denial","tag-jesus","tag-moon-landing","tag-mythicism","tag-nasa","tag-neil-de-grasse-tyson"],"yoast_head":"\n
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