Fitzgerald, David

David Fitzgerald is a contemporary American atheist writer and historical Jesus mythicist who argues that Jesus of Nazareth never existed as a historical figure. His major works, "Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed At All" (2010) and the three-volume "Jesus: Mything in Action" series (2017), present arguments against the historicity of Jesus by examining contradictions in gospel accounts, the silence of contemporary sources, and parallels with earlier mythological figures. While his work has found an audience among atheist activists and skeptics, Fitzgerald's mythicist position remains outside mainstream historical scholarship. His contributions to the God debate focus primarily on undermining Christianity's historical foundations rather than engaging traditional philosophical arguments for theism. His accessible writing style has made mythicist arguments more widely known in popular atheist discourse.