re: #19 Standard, Yet Pretty

This is the core of my heartburn over Ehrman: he’s written his book specifically to craft a narrative, in this case to pick a fight with what he sees as a collaboration between the “neo-athiests” (his term he uses in that interview at Home Brewed Christianity) and the mythicists to pull a Dan Brown type of thing on people.

However, what has resulted from all of this is that Erhman bases so much of his book on a fallacy: authority. He simply repeats that he is an expert and that the other experts agree with him, so there!