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Why would anyone think Jesus never existed?<\/i> Isn\u2019t it perfectly reasonable to accept that he was a real first century figure?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Why would anyone think Jesus never existed?<\/i> Isn\u2019t it perfectly reasonable to accept that he was a real first century figure?<\/p>\n
As it turns out, no. David Fitzgerald\u2019s award-winning book Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed At All <\/i>sheds light on ten beloved Christian myths, and with evidence gathered from historians all across the theological spectrum, shows how they point to a Jesus Christ created solely through allegorical alchemy of hope and imagination; a messiah transformed from a purely literary, theological construct into the familiar figure of Jesus \u2013 in short, a purely mythic Christ.<\/p>\n
Join us as we hear Dave lay out the ten biggest \u201cfacts\u201d Christians get wrong about Jesus in his talk \u201cTen Beautiful Lies about Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n
Praise for David Fitzgerald\u2019s<\/p>\n
Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed At All<\/i><\/p>\n
Voted one of the top 5 Atheist\/Agnostic books of 2010<\/p>\n
About Atheism.com\u2019s Reader\u2019s Choice Awards<\/p>\n
\u201cFitzgerald\u2019s is possibly the best \u2018capsule summary\u2019 of the mythicist case I\u2019ve ever encountered \u2026with an interesting and accessible approach.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Earl Doherty, author of The Jesus Puzzle<\/i><\/p>\n
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\u201cFitzgerald summarizes a great number of key arguments concisely and with new power and original spin. I really learned something from him. Recalls classical skeptics and biblical critics. A surprising amount of new material.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Robert M. Price, author of Deconstructing Jesus <\/i>and The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man<\/i><\/p>\n
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\u201cDavid Fitzgerald reveals himself to be the brightest new star in the firmament of scholars who deny historical reality to \u201cJesus of Nazareth.\u201d His brilliance would have been sufficiently established had he done nothing more than illustrate and explain traditional arguments with a clarity and transparency never achieved\u2026But he has done more. He has developed new arguments and insights as well…\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Frank R. Zindler, editor of American Atheist Press and author of The Jesus the Jews Never Knew<\/i><\/p>\n
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\u201cFitzgerald has hit the nail on the head\u2026A nice, readable introduction to the top ten problems typically swept under the rug by anyone insisting it’s crazy even to suspect Jesus might not have existed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Richard C. Carrier, Ph.D., author of Not the Impossible Faith: Why Christianity Didn\u2019t Need a Miracle to Succeed <\/i>and the forthcoming book On the Historicity of Jesus Christ<\/i><\/p>\n
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BIO:
\nDavid Fitzgerald is a writer and public speaker who has been called both \u201cThe Ferris Bueller of San Francisco\u201d and “one of the busiest atheist activists in the Bay Area.” He is the Action Coordinator for San Francisco Atheists and serves on the board of the Center for Inquiry-San Francisco; Co-founder & Director of both the world\u2019s first Atheist Film Festival and San Francisco’s oldest annual Darwin Day celebration, “Evolutionpalooza!”<\/p>\n
He is on the Speaker\u2019s Bureau of both the Secular Student Alliance and Center for Inquiry, and lectures around the country at universities and national secular events, including national conventions of American Atheists and the American Humanist Association, and an audience favorite at Skepticon.<\/p>\n
Besides all that, he is a historical researcher who has been actively investigating the Historical Jesus question for over ten years. He has a degree in history and was an associate member of CSER (the former Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion). \u00a0His most recent book is NAILED: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed At All<\/i>, which critically examines the historical evidence of Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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