It’s been quite a while. You have ears to hear; so I’d like to say it, in the hope you might see it.

I’ve learned things from him, but I’m a bit wary of Carrier, particularly since he seems to be moving towards a hard-line Mythicist position. It seems to me that the purely mythical Jesus stance is surreptitiously impelled by philo-Semitism; that it is fundamentally Politically Correct: it allows the skeptic or anti-Christian never to have to come to terms with what a real Jewish rebel would have believed. (That most of its adherents are recalcitrant ideologues and argue their belief with a religious fervor also make me suspicious in this regard.)

So this neo-Mythicist position looks to me to be a convenient way to avoid the inevitable anti-Jewish feeling that would arise in any thinking person with the understanding that Jesus was an ethnonationalist Jewish supremacist who hated non-Jews, who initially was spun by self-interested Hellenized Jews into a Graeco-Roman friendly figure.

It also strikes me as compulsive, because making a flesh-and-blood Jesus into a myth is what the early Jewish authors of Christianity themselves did: they launched a Jewish rebel into the safety of the mythological ozone so as to defuse ‘anti-Semitism’– Paul himself not the least among them of those who did this.

I’m not hardline ‘Zealot Jesus’; the forces were multifarious and complex. But the hardcore Mythicist position looks to me like yet another repetition of the forces that created the Christian illness to begin with, another attempt to steer understanding down effectively the same path to avoid the real Jesus, and ultimately for the benefit of Jews.

it’s not a logically defensible position, but I know that the very fact we exist now, proves we will exist again. Otherwise…just imagine the coincidence…showing up at that very same moment in all eternity you happen to have existed.

I have put in a formal query. I shall let you know, if and when he gets back to me with an answer….

Simply put, it was the isles of north and west in Europe. Second, it was not 100,000, it was many more over a 70 yr period. Beyond that, they did not go into Europe in 721 BC they left old Israel then and spent MANY generations in the east before they crossed into Europe. They were the goths, saxons, vandals, franks, scots, Irish etc etc.

You are speaking nonsense as usual and have your ancient history completely messed up.

LOL- look, National Geographic is getting in the action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFlYqVk88o0

“The “lost tribes” ended up migrating into an almost empty Europe…”

In 721 BC, the date of the expulsion of those “lost tribes” from Northern Palestine, that “almost empty” Europe had about 27 million inhabitants, while the inhabitants of the Northern kingdom of Israel who were expelled by the Assyrians, cannot have exceeded 100,000 ( as per Atlas of World Population History by Colin McEvedy and Richard Jones ).

Besides, before 721BC Europe had already known the Minoan Civilization of Crete ( 2700 – 1500 BC ), the Mycenaean Civilization of Greece ( 1900 – 1100 BC ) and the Etruscan Civilization of Central Italy ( 800 – 500 BC ), while the traditional date of the foundation of Rome is 753 BC.

Further North lived Celtic, Germanic, Slavonic and Baltic tribes, all several thousands of years older than those miserable Semites from Northern Palestine, whom you consider – against all chronological common sense – as their ancestors.

Stop repeating your CI drivel, you’re getting annoying!
May the lightning of the angry Zeus of the Olympus strike you!

Finally, – as always – a spelling mistake :
prodical son > prodigal son

The white European peoples were in Paganism when they initially forsook their creator 721 BC and were banished from the land. The “lost tribes” ended up migrating into an almost empty Europe and accepted Christ (read the prodical son-explains it). Returning to fallen angel worship is not the answer. This is what keeps us down and unable to be the dominating power of the world- history alone should have taught you that.