David Fitzgerald

RfRx - An Evolutionary History of Religion, Part 2, featuring David Fitzgerald

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 08:00:00 GMT

This week on RfRx, author David Fitzgerald returns to expand on his discussion of religious history. The presentation will cover recent findings in archaeology and history related to the founders, origins and early development of our major world religions. Bring your questions for the live Q&A with David and stay for the hangout after the talk!

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Playing God: The Evolutionary History of World Religions, featuring David Fitzgerald

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 08:00:00 GMT

This week on RfRx, author David Fitzgerald returns to present his recent scholarly findings in the field of global religious history. The presentation will cover the different evolutionary stages all religions appear to have gone through, the surprising twists and turns in the development of monotheism, how all our major religions appear to share the problem of having imaginary founders, and more. Bring your questions for the live Q&A with David after the talk!

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David Fitzgerald - Jesus Isn’t Real

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 14:00:00 GMT

David Fitzgerald - Jesus Isn’t Real
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Author David Fitzgerald is an award-winning writer, historical researcher, and atheist activist who lectures internationally at universities and secular events, and is a frequent guest on many podcasts.

David has been a passionate advocate for atheism, civil rights, counter-apologetics, and secular humanism his entire adult life. He is best known for his books Nailed, and The Complete Heretic's Guide to Western Religion, including Jesus: Mything in Action. David’s latest book is PLAYING GOD: An Evolutionary History of World Religion, Volumes 1-3.

In this episode, David shares that what we formerly knew about the origins and founders of world religions has been turned on its head – and that Jesus, Moses, Mohammed, and Buddha never existed in the first place!
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494 Playing God with David Fitzgerald

Sun, 07 Jul 2024 13:14:56 GMT

Interview with religious scholar David Fitzgerald. We discuss his 3 (yes, 3) new books - "Playing God" Vol 1,2 and 3. David already has several books on religion: "Nailed - Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at All", "Jesus: Mything in Action"(also in 3 parts) and "The Mormons". David and his wife are also the authors of the fantastic trillogy "Time Shards". Do things happen in 3s????

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468 Did Jesus Exist with David Fitzgerald - Ioniq 6 EV car - The Move to Schwab

Tue, 05 Sep 2023 19:13:22 GMT

Interview with author and biblical scholar David Fitzgerald. He tell us about his new book and the several books he already has.
Did Jesus exist?

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Did Jesus Exist? || Interview with David Fitzgerald, author of ”Jesus: Mything in Action”

Sat, 31 Dec 2022 04:21:19 GMT

David Fitzgerald, author of "Nailed" and "Jesus: Mything in Action" joins us to talk about why he thinks Jesus was purely a myth. Jump on and help us politely grill Dave!

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E96: The Evolution of World Religions with David Fitzgerald

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 10:00:00 GMT

All the major world religions, both Eastern and Western, share more in common than most people realize - and often share the same skeletons in their closets. In this RfRx David will discuss patterns in the ways the concept of gods and God changes over millennia. Drawing upon the scholarship of many historians and social science disciplines, he'll trace out how religious ideas originated and evolved from prehistory to the ancient world to the modern day - and the most surprising discoveries underlying all our religions, even today.

David Fitzgerald is an award-winning author, historical researcher, international public speaker, and long-time passionate atheist activist. In a career spanning over 20 years, he has worked for or with the Secular Student Alliance, American Atheists, Center for Inquiry, Camp Quest West, American Humanist Association, (and RfR!) and several other freethought organizations, conferences and secular events. Hosted by Eric Wells, the RfR Support Group Director and Sherrie D’Souza, RfR Board Member and Support Group Leader.

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E31: Is the Founder of Your Religion Imaginary? w/ David Fitzgerald

Tue, 27 Jul 2021 08:53:44 GMT

Every major world religion has a venerated founder figure who changed the course of history, but...how well do the biographies of these beloved figures actually hold up to scrutiny? According to historians of religion, surprisingly poorly.

David Fitzgerald is an award-winning author, historical researcher, international public speaker, and long-time passionate atheist activist. In a career spanning over 20 years, he has worked for or with the Secular Student Alliance, American Atheists, Center for Inquiry, Camp Quest West, American Humanist Association, (and RfR!) and several other freethought organizations, conferences and secular events. Hosted by Amaia Perez, the RfR Online Programming Director, and Eric Wells, the RfR Support Group Director.

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382 Time Shards and Bond Funds

Mon, 17 May 2021 10:25:09 GMT

Interview with Dana Fredsti and David Fitzgerald. Book 3 "Tempus Fury" of the 3 part series "Time Shards" comes out on June 8, 2021. We discuss the trilogy and how it started and evolved!
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324 David Fitzgerald - Shatter War

Mon, 16 Dec 2019 14:45:17 GMT

Interview with David Fitzgerald. He and his wife Dana Fredsti have finished the 2nd of three books in the "Time Shards" trilogy. David has also written several books on religion. Including:
- Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed At All
- Jesus: Mything in Action (Vol 1,2,3)
- The Complete Heretic's Guide to Western Religion, Book 1 - Mormons

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294 Jesus: Mything in Action - David Fitzgerald

Fri, 08 Feb 2019 19:30:22 GMT

Interview with David Fitzgerald. We talk about Jesus. Did he exist? What is the evidence?

He is the author of:

Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at All

The Mormons

Jesus Mything In Action (parts 1,2 & 3) These are on kindle for just $6.66 each!

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Other topics: Medical Rant, Electric cars, Certificates of Deposit, How to invest inheritance, Canadian Crypto currency and more....

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#034: Did Jesus Exist? (w/ David Fitzgerald)

Wed, 14 Nov 2018 16:26:21 GMT

In this episode, we are doubting the historical existence of a man you may have heard about: Jesus of Nazareth. Ever since critical biblical scholarship began in the eighteenth century, largely a product of the Enlightenment, the consensus among mainstream historians and religious scholars has been that a man named Jesus did historically exist in Palestine and was crucified by the Romans in the first decades of the Common Era. Although these biblical critics did doubt and challenge the reality of the New Testament’s portrait of Jesus as a miracle worker and divinely appointed savior, they did think – or, more precisely, assume – that there was a real man named Jesus upon whom theological legends were later based. But there has always been another school of thought. The mythicists argued that not only was the Christ of faith a theological fantasy, but the Jesus of history was also a fiction. Jesus, said the mythicist scholars, never even existed historically. Did Jesus exist as a historical figure? That is the question we are exploring here today on this podcast. Joining me as my special guest is David Fitzgerald, an author and historical researcher who has been actively investigating the Historical Jesus question for over 20 years. He has a degree in history and was an associate member of the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion (CSER). He has authored five books, including “Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at All” and the three-volume work “Jesus: Mything in Action.” I have a guest co-host joining me for this episode as well, my friend and former colleague from the dearly-departed Trolling with Logic podcast, Wolf McNamara. Doubter of the Week: Marian Evans, aka “George Eliot” (1819-1880): Victorian poet, novelist, and freethinker, who translated Strauss’ “Life of Jesus, Critically Examined” into English. Links: David Fitzgerald on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dgcfitzgerald David Fitzgerald book “Nailed”: https://tinyurl.com/y8f4o3x5 David Fitzgerald’s “Jesus: Mything in Action” books: https://tinyurl.com/y6wenp4j David Fitzgerald, “Examining the Existence of a Historical Jesus” (Skepticon 3 lecture, 2010): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvleOBYTrDE Join the official discussion group of this podcast at www.facebook.com/groups/aleapofdoubt. Consider supporting me Patreon if you enjoy the show: http://www.patreon.com/aleapofdoubt. Thanks to Jeff Prebeg, Jeanne Ikerd, Torsten Pihl, Chris Watson, and Kim Bojkovsky for being my patrons! Follow me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TheNatheist. The opening clip is an excerpt from the audiobook “God is Not Great” by Christopher Hitchens, courtesy of Hachette Audio. Text Copyright 2007 by Christopher Hitchens. Audio production copyright 2007, Hachette Audio. Used with permission. The opening and ending music is “Jade” by Esther Nicholson and is used under license. The editing was done by Rich Lyons of the “Living After Faith” podcast. Check out our website: https://reasonrevolution.org. Give us a like on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/reasonrevolution.

010: Did Jesus Exist? Or...Was He A Myth (with David Fitzgerald) Part 2

Thu, 08 Mar 2018 12:04:54 GMT

If Jesus of Nazareth did not exist--as the Gospels indicate he did--what are the implications for Christianity?

Find out more in Part 2 of my conversation with mythicist and atheist David Fitzgerald, author of Nailed: 10 Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at All and Jesus: Mything in Action.

We explore the implications for Christianity, society, culture, and as a planet. Christianity is losing its best and brightest, most thoughtful and compassionate people--so who will be left to carry the torch?

Find out in the second half of our conversation!

009: Did Jesus Exist? Or...Was He A Myth (with David Fitzgerald) Part 1

Thu, 08 Mar 2018 11:42:18 GMT

Did Jesus of Nazareth actually exist?

Believe it or not, this is not the first time this question has been posed by theologians and biblical scholars.

Dating to the 18th and 19th centuries, scholars responding to biblical higher criticism sought to find the "real Jesus of history"--not the Jesus of the Gospels, whom they alleged had been covered up by layers of traditions.

But today, mythicist and atheist David Fitzgerald questions whether Jesus even lived at all, or if he was indeed a construct of literary and theological notions. Author of Nailed: 10 Christian Myths that show Jesus Never Existed at All and Jesus: Mything in Action, David searches both the biblical and historical records to see if Jesus ever walked the earth.

Join me for the first half of this challenging and thought-provoking discussion!

208 David Fitzgerald Jesus: Mything In Action

Tue, 11 Apr 2017 15:24:57 GMT

Interview with biblical scholar David Fitzgerald. He just came out with an unholy trinity of books, "Jesus: Mything In Action" Volume 1,2 & 3! These are a must read if you thing that Jesus actually existed.

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Jesus: Mything in Action (with David Fitzgerald)

Tue, 04 Apr 2017 12:00:00 GMT

More and more every day, the claims of a literal, historical Jesus are coming into question. Many atheists still think the Jesus-as-God story traces back to a literal person, but author Historical researcher David Fitzgerald is among a growing number of mythicists who think that that Jesus never existed in any human form.

David joins Seth Andrews for a discussion about Jesus, the claims, the evidence (and lack of), and David's new book on the subject, "Jesus: Mything in Action Volume 1."

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Christianity: Mystery Faith

Tue, 06 Oct 2015 21:00:00 GMT

Christianity. Where did it come from? Who wrote the books of the Bible? Is there any evidence for a god or man named Jesus? Why has Christianity remained so popular over the ages?

This podcast features two interviews, conducted by Seth Andrews, with historians and researchers who speak about the origins the New Testament Gospels, the ever-changing face of Christianity, history versus myth, and the Jesus story

In separate interviews, David Fitzgerald and Dr. Robert Carrier each tackle the Bible and its deity.

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#103 - David Fitzgerald

Sun, 14 Jun 2015 02:19:50 GMT

Author of The Mormons, and Nailed, David Fitzgerald joins Phil Ferguson.

The Question of Christ

Mon, 22 Dec 2014 17:00:00 GMT

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Is there any evidence for a real Jesus? Was Jesus' story borrowed from earlier religions and cultures? Is Jesus really the reason for the Christmas season, which is being celebrated globally this week?

In this podcast, Seth Andrews speaks to three historians who have dedicated much of their lives and writings to the subject of Christ and Christianity: Dr. Richard Carrier, David Fitzgerald and Dr. Robert M. Price.

Join us for a compelling panel and an enlightening show.

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