– Atheist writer David Fitzgerald claims there is no evidence Jesus Christ ever existed
– The author aims to show evidence that “Jesus may have been a figure of legend, not of history”
Jesus Christ was not a real person and is most likely a mythic figure, whose collective image was the result of a combination of allegorical stories about several different individuals, according to David Fitzgerald, an American writer, public speaker, and atheist activist.
San Francisco-based author is known for his controversial essays, books and presentations debunking religious myths. He wonders how come that not a single historian had mentioned Jesus Christ in their works or at least heard of him from the time when he was supposed to have lived.
1. Why don’t historians mention Jesus?
Fitzgerald writes: “There is nothing implausible to think that Jesus was a real person, but I just don’t think that he can have been a single person if he existed at all. We also have no mention of Jesus in other historical texts from the time.
‘During this period there were many other messiahs and wannabe messiahs who did far less exciting things than Jesus, but all of them managed something Jesus did not – to make a dent on the historical record. Two billion people believe all these miracles happened yet there is no evidence they did.”
2. Did Jesus actually ‘fly up to heaven’?
“Of course, the final icing on the Jesus cake is his resurrection and ascension into Heaven in front of many witnesses. It’s strange enough to realize that such a world-altering supernatural event, if true arguably one of the most significant and influential moments in history, seen by scores of eyewitnesses, would not have been an immediate bombshell on the consciousness of the first-century world. But it comes without a trace in the historical record for nearly a century.”
3. And what about the whole tax census thing – did any historian notice that?
“Luke (2:1-4) claims Jesus was born in the year of a universal tax census under Augustus Caesar, while Cyrenius (a.k.a. Quirinius) was governor of Syria, But Roman records show the first such universal census didn’t occur until decades after this, during the reign of the emperor Vespasian in 74 CE.”
4. Why has no historian written about Herod killing all the kids?
“There is absolutely no way anyone would have missed an outrage as big as the massacre of every infant boy in the area around a town just 6 miles from Jerusalem – and yet there is absolutely no corroboration for it in any account – Jewish, Greek or Roman. It’s not even found in any of the other Gospels – only Matthew’s.”
5. Why did no one else notice the Star of Bethlehem?
“Most Christians also accept that Jesus’ birth and death were also accompanied by still more phenomenally news-worthy events; like a 3-hour supernatural darkness over “all the land,”. But like the miraculous Star of Bethlehem, noone recorded any such thing at this time. Astronomical marvels like these could never have been ignored by workslike Pliny’s Natural History, Seneca’s Natural Questions, Ptolemy’s Almagest, the works of Tacitus or Suetonius.”
The Christ myth theory is the hypothesis that Jesus of Nazareth never existed or if he did, that he had virtually nothing to do with the founding of Christianity and the accounts in the gospels.
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