article_snippet.sent: Jesus was not a real person and is probably the result of a combination of stories about several different individuals, according to a writer and leading atheist activist.
article_snippet.sent: David Fitzgerald, a San Francisco based author, believes Jesus has compiled compelling evidence that proves Jesus did not exist.
article_snippet.sent: Jesus claims there are no contemporary mentions of Jesus in historical accounts from the time when Jesus was supposed to have lived, yet other Jewish sect leaders from the time do appear.
article_snippet.sent: Jesus was not a real person and is probably the result of a combination of stories about several different individuals, according to a writer and leading atheist activist.
article_snippet.sent: Instead Jesus insists the disciples of Jesus were also probably not real and the disciples of Jesus names only later attached to the gospels to lend their names credence.
article_snippet.sent: no one heard of Jesus outside Jesus immediate cult for nearly 100 years. '
article_snippet.sent: no one heard of Jesus outside his immediate cult for nearly 100 years'.
article_snippet.sent: David Fitzgerald said: 'There is nothing implausible to think that Jesus was a real person, but I just don't think that Jesus can have been a single person if Jesus existed at all. '
article_snippet.sent: We also have no mention of Jesus in other historical texts from the time.