Nailed Quotes

“A truth is not hard to kill, and a lie well told is immortal.” - Mark Twain”
― David Fitzgerald, Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at All

“Ultimately, Christianity succeeded in seizing the Roman Empire, and thus the western world, not because of the beauty of its teachings or the spiritual truths it fostered, but thanks to the most worldly of motives: power and money.”
― David Fitzgerald, Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at All

“In fact, the very question of who stole from whom, Christianity or the Mystery Faiths, misses the most essential point: Christianity is a Mystery Faith.”
― David Fitzgerald, Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at All

“there are no contemporary accounts of Christ from any source, in or outside the Bible.”
― David Fitzgerald, Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at All

“Christianity winding up on top was anything but inevitable. Its eventual emergence after a slow, painful crawl for three hundred long years was thanks to the collapse of Rome. During the centuries that Roman civilization enjoyed prosperity and security, Christianity had little to offer. As long as the Pax Romana held, followers of Jesus would never be anything more than just one more foreign cult among many. Chances are, Christianity would have been doomed to languish in obscurity, perhaps even slip quietly into extinction. Instead, Christianity owes its success to a century of bad fortune for the ancient Mediterranean.”
― David Fitzgerald, Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at All

“In fact, only in the third century does material evidence of a Christian presence anywhere in the Empire begin to match that of even minor pagan cults.”14”
― David Fitzgerald, Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at All

“The fact that an educated Roman governor and Consul (the highest possible office in the entire Roman Empire, short of actually being the Emperor) knows so little about Christianity that he has to conduct interrogations to get the basics proves that it was still a little known fringe movement at this time. What’s more, Trajan’s reply mentions no trial precedents or decrees against Christians, highlighting the fact that no trial records existed in Roman archives for famous Christians like Jesus, Peter or Paul. If there had been, Pliny would not had to go into detail describing the trials he conducted.”
― David Fitzgerald, Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at All

“Physical Evidence Finally, perhaps it’s not unreasonable to think that there could have been writings, physical evidence or actual relics of Jesus preserved, rather then the scores of frauds that did not start appearing until three hundred years later.”
― David Fitzgerald, Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at All

“But we don’t have to rule out miracles a priori, or even make demands such as “extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.” We can simply observe that extraordinary events tend to have extraordinary reactions – or indeed, any reaction.”
― David Fitzgerald, Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at All

“skeptics are often accused of unfairly rejecting the miracles in the Gospels out of hand due to their so-called “Naturalist” or “Materialist” bias. Of course, the same ones who make this objection have no qualms about freely employing their own “naturalistic bias” to dismiss the miracles of other religions...”
― David Fitzgerald, Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at All

“Eleusinian Mysteries (and probably accompanied his young lover”
― David Fitzgerald, Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at All

“So this is the state of the Gospels: four contradictory, convoluted and reworked writings set down decades after the supposed events by unknown author or authors falsely being passed off as eyewitnesses, and all primarily derived from a single source, which as we’ll see, appears to be entirely literary fiction.”
― David Fitzgerald, Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at All