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Richard Carrier has a Ph.D. in ancient history from Columbia University and specializes in the modern philosophy of naturalism, the origins of Christianity, and the intellectual history of Greece and Rome. He is the author of Sense and Goodness without God, On the Historicity of Jesus, and The Scientist in the Early Roman Empire. Richard defends the premise that a government run along secular humanist principles is the best form of societal governance. His two core tenets are that human interests matter above all, and that rational, evidence based reasoning makes everyone better off.
Richard Carrier has a Ph.D. in ancient history from Columbia University and specializes in the modern philosophy of naturalism, the origins of Christianity, and the intellectual history of Greece and Rome. He is the author of Sense and Goodness without God, On the Historicity of Jesus, and The Scientist in the Early Roman Empire. Richard defends the premise that a government run along secular humanist principles is the best form of societal governance. His two core tenets are that human interests matter above all, and that rational, evidence based reasoning makes everyone better off.
