Atheists and Other Freethinkers

AOF is very pleased to be hosting historian and atheist philosopher Richard Carrier at our June 14 meeting. He will be traveling from San Francisco to talk to us about his new book, Not the Impossible Faith: Why Christianity Didn’t Need a Miracle to Succeed. Dr. Carrier describes his talk as “an amusing tour of my latest book, which exposes the lousy scholarship and probable dishonesty of the infamous online Christian apologist J.P. Holding. In the process, you’ll learn all kinds of useful and interesting things about the ancient world and the earliest Christians, and why their religion was a natural success––all contradicting Holding’s book, The Impossible Faith, which argued Christianity was so badly conceived it could never have succeeded unless it had irrefutable proof that Jesus had risen from the dead. Poppycock! There will also be some sidelines on J.P. Holding and Christian apologetics in general, beyond the treatment of the book.”