John Wayne Loftus (born September 18, 1954) is an American atheist author.

In the mid 1990s, in light of an extramarital affair, Loftus had a crisis of faith and eventually rejected Christianity.

He co-edited, with Robert M. Price, an anthology by prominent contemporary English-speaking mythicists, Varieties of Jesus Mythicism: Did He Even Exist?

"It is no different than the prince in the Cinderella story who must question forty-five thousand people to see which girl lost the glass slipper at the ball the previous night.

[8] Matthew Flannagan, "A Review of the Christian Delusion",[9] and David Marshall, How Jesus Passes the Outsider Test: The Inside Story.