Atheism Quote by Bertrand Russell

I'm saying that there's absolutely no conclusive evidence that Jesus ever really existed, even as a mortal. I don't believe he was a historical…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed.

— Graham Stanton

I think the evidence is just so overwhelming that Jesus existed, that it's silly to talk about him not existing. I don't know anyone…

— Bart D. Ehrman

Jesus existed, and those vocal persons who deny it do so not because they have considered the evidence with the dispassionate eye of the…

— Bart D. Ehrman

About six years ago, Life magazine ran an article on the historicity of Jesus and I was floored to find that they conceded the…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Do you believe in the existence of Socrates? Alexander the Great? Julius Caesar? If historicity is established by written records in multiple copies that…

— Dinesh D'Souza

Either Jesus had a father, or he didn't. The question is a scientific one, and scientific evidence, if any were available, would be used…

— Richard Dawkins

There is not a single contemporary historical mention of Jesus, not by Romans or by Jews, not by believers or by unbelievers, during his…

— Dan Barker

Christ is indispensable to any scientific theory, even if its practitioners do not have a clue about him.

— William A. Dembski

I'm reading the Gospels at the moment and I can find no evidence of the kind of Christ people seem to have invented and…

— Franco Zeffirelli

I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries.

— Henry David Thoreau

I think if you place Jesus firmly in the historical context... you can make very educated hypotheses and guesses about how he lived.

— Reza Aslan