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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ad ho·mi·nem
/?ad ?häm?n?m/
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(of an argument or reaction) directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining.

You know they are right.  Or you would refute the claims with alternate evidence.

Carrier's academic credentials are impeccable.  Of course he is criticized by theists!

Your side loses every day in the information age. And will continue to.  This is why.[/quote]

What I have posted are criticisms of these people by their PEERS!

Carrier criticized calendar lady!

Atheists don’t even accept calendar lady: read her wiki page. Read her RECEPTION. That means what other people in her “field” think about her!

Baptist comparative religion scholar Clinton Bennett compares her views to those of radical freethinker Robert Taylor (nicknamed "the Devil's chaplain"), secularist MP and Christ-mythicist John M. Robertson, and American mythographer Joseph Campbell.[20] Butler University religion professor James F. McGrath describes her viewpoint as one that "once had some currency among scholars" in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but was subsequently abandoned.[21]

Atheist activist and Christ mythicist Richard Carrier criticized her use of the inscriptions at Luxor to make the claim that the story of Jesus' birth was inspired by the Luxor story of the birth of Horus.[22] Theologian and Christ-mythicist Robert M. Price also criticized Murdock's first book,[23] while promoting her Suns of God: Krishna, Buddha and Christ Unveiled in The Pre-Nicene New Testament: Fifty-Four Formative Texts,[24] and writing the foreword to her Who Was Jesus?: Fingerprints of the Christ.[6]

Her work has also been criticized by New Testament scholar Bart D. Ehrman, who, in his Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth calls Murdock's The Christ Conspiracy "the breathless conspirator's dream". He says "all of Acharya's major points are in fact wrong" and her book "is filled with so many factual errors and outlandish assertions that it is hard to believe the author is serious". Taking her as representative of some other writers about the Christ myth theory, he continues "Mythicists of this ilk should not be surprised that their views are not taken seriously by real scholars, mentioned by experts in the field, or even read by them".[25]

Emeritus Professor of New Testament Languages and Literature at the University of Nottingham Maurice Casey criticized her work for "her anti-Christian outlook, a lack of any proper sense of reality, failure to give adequate references, inability to interpret primary sources correctly, and dependence on inaccurate out-of-date secondary sources rather than primary evidence."[26

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acharya_S

These are ad hom attacks? No![/quote]

These are ad hominem attacks.  Yes. By definition.

Address the points themselves.[/quote]

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