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e mail criticus at mindvendor com webmaster webmaster mindvendor com the god who wasn t there featuring robert m price mindvendor robert m price presents theology with a twist but without the spin visit our patron acknowledgement page coming soon reasons you should read listen to and support robert m price i know of no better way to tell you about what i do than to let my readers and listeners do it for me it is a joy to serve these wonderful colleagues and students robert m price since reading the case against the case for christ i have become enthralled with your work and read many of your other books i value the great amount of research you have undertaken to provide your readers with informed viewpoints furthermore i appreciate your respectful approach toward christians and their beliefs in your writings and when being interviewed roger hawke an australian living in china wow this is a beautiful piece of writing of yours i just came across this morning o ne cannot possess the beauty of a landscape and one soon forgets the self lost in wonder presented from possessing the ego withers away for the moment and the beauty shines unobstructed self no longer stands in its way blocking the view the reason driven life p 141 my compliments i trust it helps you to know that you have fans the hundred thousand year old relationship management structures of my brain have accepted you as something of a virtual wise uncle after having listened to you hold forth for dozens of hours on fascinating topics and even answer a few direct questions so let s continue to sit in the virtual den and chat while the rest of the family cleans up the thanksgiving mess and laughs about how young theo soaks up all that arcane stuff from weird uncle bob theophobius wow your talk rocked the house i have received a multitude of emails expressing uproarious approval with your talk your generosity with your time and your personality helped make this event a much greater success than any of us could have imagined we would love to have you back for skepticon iii if you d be willing jh i love listening to you mop up the floor with your opponents in debates and i really enjoyed your part on the god who wasn t there i sure wish i had your command of biblical knowledge so i could put people in their place i also listen to the bible geek episodes on the infidel guy over and over again keep up the good work curt underwood columbus oh hi bob when i started to listen to your point of inquiry podcast i must admit that i was inclined to turn it off it is not an area that i normally pay much attention to but i let it run for a minute or two and alas i was hooked you did an amazing job and i could not stop listening when i got to my parking space i had to sit for 10 minutes to finish the show now i can t wait for the next one great job bob i love your work on bible mythology i think what you are doing is meaningful there are few critical scholars of your stature willing to speak their minds in the midst of the sanhedrin if it weren t for people like you many of us would still be squirming as worms before the high priests of piety being led as zombies to the sacrificial altars of credulity there are many here among us and we are coming with tough questions stephen wright just wanted to thank you for writing incredible shrinking son of man how reliable is the gospel tradition the reason driven life what am i here on earth for and inerrant the wind the evangelical crisis of biblical authority you have played a key role in my search for truth sazib mahmud bhuivan i am an extreme fan and student of your books and philosophy wherein jesus christ is concerned now i did have a disagreement in a paltalk chatroom with folks who do not know or believe such thing as a christian atheist can exist they as it where are denying your existence and think such a stance is oxymoronic i do not though antoine mason commented on facebook wall post i have really appreciated dr price s voice in all of these debates i m am an avid student of both bart ehrman and the westar jesus seminar crew and have truly enjoyed the debates between the various camps and have always appreciated dr price s willingness to go his own way where the evidence leads him he doesn t seem to think he has to always line up behind one side or the other rex burks i wonder if it will ever be possible to compile all of your writings and radio programs i haven t been keeping up since the early days when i tried to read whatever new article or book you were working on you read so widely and have heard so many different interpretations and arguments and discovered so many interesting connections between things it s like your brain is constantly crunching info rotating it in 3d noticing parallels and analogies i also see that a collection of your fiction has appeared brummbar when i first heard about the bible geek from friends listening to reggie finley s infidel guy i winced inwardly and thought oh brother another smug atheist debunking biblical inerrancy with tired quips about who cain married and how we know what jesus said when he was alone i could not have been more wrong thank you for making biblical study fun again interesting and alive thank you for combining respect for the cultural impact and richness of scripture with unblinking principled skepticism and integrity thank you for all you have taught me george heingartner bob as a reader and someone who has had the pleasure of your company at one conference i know you are a great teacher and a great writer who has done much for the betterment of mankind rodrigo neely recuero i just wanted to thank you again for your work your books have been life changing for me thank you david scull hearing an interview with dr price back in like 2005 or 2006 was my first step out of the quasi spiritual theist life for me pradeep satyaprakash i earned my ba in philosophy from westminster college in salt lake city at the age of 56 had i but had your book the reason driven life sooner your tabula rasa comments made me think that we are as you said a product of time space and genetics we do stand before the canvas of our lives adding and subtracting from the art of our lives accompanied by the music of the spheres all of your books are a must for me i wanted to let you know how much i admire your line of thinking i too am an atheist who studies religion i have listened to a few of your debates and i ve also seen you in the god who wasn t there thank you for weighing in on theology and religious studies do you do private consulting i am developing a serious case of cognitive dissonance over what i am reading in the bible as compared to my christian faith and need to come to some sort of resolution before i go absolutely nuts i understand you are not a mental health counselor etc but you have the kind of mental grace wisdom and respect for the religious impulse that i think would help me more than anything merely theological or psychological theophobius i am 100 pages into inerrant the wind and finding it to be one of the best books i ve ever read certainly the best on the subject highly recommended i just heard your point of inquiry talk on pop mysticism and found it interesting i thought i d drop a note thanking you for the interesting presentation and particularly for the effort to get skeptics to realize there is a positive side to spirituality greg i would just like to say that i have been enjoying your works this past year having heard about you through a friend of mine i have read jesus is dead and the reason driven life and i am looking forward to owning the rest of your books as well i just wanted to thank you not only for your scholarly insight and putting out the fruits of your research but also for the fact that you admit atheism i look forward to reading more of your excellent works and thank you for your efforts they are greatly appreciated ryan i truly love your show having listened to nearly every episode and intend to continue listening as long as i have the ability to do so i probably listen to you more than anyone right now marshall bass you know i disagree with 99 of the things you say and the other 1 is just peripheral but you are my favorite person to disagree with i love listening to your lectures and debates your rhetoric is like poetry i hope i can be as good a speaker as you some day minus the whole atheist thing just a short note of appreciation for your website at mindvendor com i visit it often and learn much your scholarship shows thru peter g roode m d you gave me some pretty decent advice once it spoke to me and that s a good thing from what i could tell it reflected on you pretty well live long and prosper daniel sandoval i am so thankful for having been directed to your site i have spent 67 years upon this earth and for the vast majority i have been a prisoner of absurd catholic dogma and doctrine the insidious brainwashing was so ingrained in my persona that i felt guilt even thinking about turning away from the church i want only to thank you for having this site it truly is an oasis of logic reason and intellect traits sorely lacking in any religions hopefully i am not too far gone to be redeemed thank you for giving me the opportunity to tell you in person how much your work has meant to my family a few years ago i left an oppressive religion jehovah s witnesses because it no longer made sense to me i really never looked back but my wife daughter who recently followed were often plagued by guilt after discovering your podcast doing a little research to confirm that you were speaking from a position of authority honesty i was at first delighted then burned by zeitgeist i began to share points with them that helped them to understand that it is simply impossible to build a firm defensible dogma from the bible i could go on at this point gushing about their joy as they began to see the bible for what it is allowing the chains to slip from their minds i could also grovel in gratitude for the sleepless nights you have eliminated and the clarity of vision you have encouraged and it would all be true what i will do is say that whatever compensation you receive for your work it is not enough so please add to that the fact that you have helped three people in a very real way and for that we thank you curious thomas i tried to flirt with liberal christianity for a while by reading marcus borg and john spong and briefly attended a liberal catholic parish nothing seemed to gel with me it all seemed so hollow so empty so meaningless i eventually started a brief dialogue with robert m price who really helped me with some of my less rational fears about walking away bob said something like if god really existed then he wouldn t be fooled if you don t believe then you don t believe admit it and get on with your life so in 2005 i came to a place where i was finally able to say i did not believe anymore i was also able to say that i had in fact not believed for years and had been kidding myself cliff thomas mr price it is an honor to have the opportunity to write you and let you know how much your podcasts have meant to me both the bible geek and your work on point of inquiry i was brought up catholic then was born again and joined a friends church followed by buddhism and finally i find myself firmly planted in the atheist camp for many years i was very angry towards what i saw as a false faith built on a false book and practiced by small minded idiots but over the past few years i have softened some of my views on this and at the same time i started finding your name popping up on podcasts i listen to and then from point of inquiry i found your website and podcast in a nutshell i would like to thank you for giving me back the bible as a valuable piece of literature not just a dogmatic tool for the church it makes me think of the shirt guns don t kill people i kill people the bible did not kill my faith people killed it rick sirl i have been a practicing christian since i was about 19 years old first within evangelical protestantism which did give me a love for the bible yet the more i read the bible the more questions i had as i read church history i couldn t find any of the doctrines that i had been taught like the sinner s prayer i began to realize such things were not only not a part of the early church but were not even in the bible eventually i went seeking a more historical and liturgical form of christianity joining the eastern orthodox church yet as the years have gone by i seem to have traded one crisis of faith with another over the last couple of years i slowly faded away from the zealous commitment for church i once had and as i ve become more familiar with church history i have come to realize there never was one true church i slipped into agnosticism and began reading all of the new atheists books and listening to their talks i began to actually hate the bible the murder the evils and all the rest people like dawkins harp on all the time it was about this time that i first encountered your work i thought to myself oh no not another one of these jesus myth people yet after listening to you on that show i found that you at least knew the scholarship and history of the bible and early christianity and more importantly you weren t making some of the outrageous claims that many of the atheist apologists make about the issue these people seem to me no better than christian apologists like william lane craig however you seemed to have a balanced opinion on the topic and i have come to learn a great deal from your talks and from the bible geek program itself while i do not adhere to the christ myth theory myself your balanced historical and thought out approach to the topic of the historical jesus has shed new light on the subject for me it was around that time that i also happened across two of your works that have been illuminating for me the first was reading a copy of the reason driven life nearly every single page made perfect sense to me it helped me to reflect upon where i was spiritually and it was the first step in helping me to become comfortable with the reality that none of us know anything for certain the second piece of your work that had a fundamental change on me was when i listened to a talk you had given titled is the bible mein kampf i had developed a hatred for the bible yet deep down i missed the bible this talk made me realize that i was totally overreacting your podcast and archived lectures and writings along the reason driven life have given me permission to love the bible once again and i do love the bible i find it utterly fascinating enlightening full of wisdom at times and you are a big reason that i have once again began reading the bible studying it and learning from it i consider myself a believer though as i said an agnostic believer i respect your courage for saying 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