Richard Carrier

I find Carrier one of the more bracing voices in contemporary skepticism. A Berkeley-trained historian who built his name arguing the Christ myth theory, he refuses to treat sacred subjects as off-limits, insisting instead on the same evidentiary scrutiny we'd apply to any ancient figure. What I respect is not the conclusion but the method: a stubborn willingness to read the primary sources and keep asking whether the consensus actually holds. He's a divisive figure, and reasonable people push back hard, but I'll always have time for someone who treats inquiry as a discipline rather than a destination. That intellectual restlessness is genuinely rare.

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Name (English)

Richard Carrier

Name (Japanese)

リチャード・キャリアー

Reading

りちゃーど・きゃりあー

Born

December 1, 1969 (age 56)

Origin

Ontario, California, United States

Occupation

historian / philosopher

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Rooster

University

University of California, Berkeley

• Official sitehttps://www.richardcarrier.info/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Carrier
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q59874

Tags

• California
• historian
• philosopher

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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