(Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)Another year, another atheist trying to spoil the taste of everyone’s Easter Eggs – by claiming Jesus never existed at all.

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French philosopher Michel Onfray makes the claim in his latest 65-page book, Decadence – built on the idea that Jesus never existed.

In fact, Onfray argues, our entire civilisation is built on the lie of Jesus of Nazareth, and of the Catholic Church – and that’s why it’s doomed, according to Philly.com.


Onfray has written more than 100 books, including ‘In Defence of Atheism’ – in which he argues that religion actually glorifies death, and leads us to neglect life.



Onfray says, ‘God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition.’

(Picture: Michel Onfray, Décadence)

His book continues his argument that Jesus never existed – based on the fact that, other than in the Bible, he is barely mentioned in accounts of the period.

Jesus of Nazareth is only mentioned twice in history books by Flavius Josephus – but is not mentioned in dozens of other books of the period.

Other writers have suggested hat the writers of the gospels worked decades after Jesus’s death, and made up the idea of Jesus by combining information about several Jewish sect leaders from the period.

His upcoming book claims that Jesus Christ as we know him is a literary invention – and that there was no single ‘Jesus’ at all.