RE: Pagan influences on the biblical stories of Jesus' life
April 6, 2016 at 6:05 pm
(This post was last modified: April 6, 2016 at 6:08 pm by Fake Messiah.)
Pagan influence? I think bigger question is if there was any new concept that was brought by Jesus or Bible altogether? Really! From the very beginning, the creation story, is just plagiarism of Egyptian creation myth - or should I say re-make of it by turning a creation done by 8 gods into creation story done by 1 god. Or notion of the soul.
Or Jesus and his resurrection. There were many myths like that before like goddess of the harvest, Demeter, who searched for her daughter every year in the land of the dead and when ever she left nature died, but when she found her daughter she returned and nature came to life again.
Even the symbols of Demeter, which are grapes and ear of wheat, were later used (and still are) by christian and especially Catholic priests.
Or virginal birth. You had Athens who was a goddess but also a virgin because that was the only way men could respect a woman in those times, since by refusing dick she was considered under no influence of any man, but only her own. If she got fucked she was under him. So no wonder when you read the four gospels the only one in which the virgin birth appears is the Gospel According to Luke, and Luke was a Greek.
But since Bible contradicts itself so much and/or people create false legends about stories in it you have people worshiping "Virgin Mary" although in the NZ it is mentioned that Joseph had sex with her, although after Jesus was born. Not to mention that she didn't consider him messiah or God and Bible clearly states that she wanted to put him in one of those ancient places for mentally ill people which contradicts the notion that she was visited by an angel telling her she'll give birth to God.
Or Jesus and his resurrection. There were many myths like that before like goddess of the harvest, Demeter, who searched for her daughter every year in the land of the dead and when ever she left nature died, but when she found her daughter she returned and nature came to life again.
Even the symbols of Demeter, which are grapes and ear of wheat, were later used (and still are) by christian and especially Catholic priests.
Or virginal birth. You had Athens who was a goddess but also a virgin because that was the only way men could respect a woman in those times, since by refusing dick she was considered under no influence of any man, but only her own. If she got fucked she was under him. So no wonder when you read the four gospels the only one in which the virgin birth appears is the Gospel According to Luke, and Luke was a Greek.
But since Bible contradicts itself so much and/or people create false legends about stories in it you have people worshiping "Virgin Mary" although in the NZ it is mentioned that Joseph had sex with her, although after Jesus was born. Not to mention that she didn't consider him messiah or God and Bible clearly states that she wanted to put him in one of those ancient places for mentally ill people which contradicts the notion that she was visited by an angel telling her she'll give birth to God.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
