article_snippet.sent: David Fitzgerald, a San Francisco based author, believes Jesus Christ has compiled compelling evidence that proves Jesus did not exist.
article_snippet.sent: Atheist writer David Fitzgerald Atheist writer David Fitzgerald believes Jesus Christ was a literary invention that combined the stories from several cults and figures in Judea during the first century .
article_snippet.sent: Mr Fitzgerald, whose first book 'Nailed: Ten Christian Myths that Show Jesus Christ Never Existed at All' was published in 2010, believes it is no longer reasonable to assume there has to be a single historic figure who began Christianity.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Fitzgerald said: 'There is nothing implausible to think that Jesus Christ was a real person, but I just don't think that Mr Fitzgerald can have been a single person if Mr Fitzgerald existed at all. '
article_snippet.sent: Mr Fitzgerald argues that many of these stories were in fact incorporated into the story of Jesus as literary devices rather than as a historical account.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Fitzgerald hopes to have Mr Fitzgerald new book 'Jesus: Mything in Action' out later this year.
highlights_snippet.sent: Atheist writer David Fitzgerald claims there is no evidence Jesus existed .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Atheist writer David Fitzgerald instead says Jesus was a literary allegory created by combining old Jewish stories and rituals along with rival cults .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Atheist writer David Fitzgerald insists it is time to stop believing in Jesus Christ as a historical figure .