Regarding the "History" Channel's "The Bible" - Jesus was not a white dude

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39. no, the ad hominem always loses

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edited to say - I bet you liked bart erhrman before his last book.

for those who don't know, he is an agnostic scholar who has written extensively about how the bible is full of contradictions and can't be real history but has recently pissed off mythicists with his latest book explaining why there is indeed academic consensus that Jesus existed - but as a man, not a god.

"His book Jesus, Interrupted critically assesses the New Testament documents and early Christianity. In his book Forged which was released in 2011, he asserts that 11 or more books of the Christian New Testament were essentially politically expeditious forgeries, intended to advance various theological positions and were in fact not written by the authors traditionally ascribed to them...In 2012, Ehrman published Did Jesus Exist? defending the thesis that Jesus of Nazareth existed in contrast to the mythicist theory that Jesus is an entirely mythical or fictitious being woven whole-cloth out of legendary material. He states he expects the book to be criticized both by some atheists as well as fundamentalist Christians. In response, Richard Carrier published a lengthy criticism of the book in April 2012, particularly questioning both Ehrman's facts and methodology.[7] Ehrman replied to Carrier's criticisms on his website, primarily defending himself against Carrier's allegations of factual errors.[8]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_Ehrman