RE: Better reasons to quit Christianity
August 25, 2012 at 11:08 pm
(This post was last modified: August 25, 2012 at 11:09 pm by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
(August 25, 2012 at 10:06 pm)spockrates Wrote:(August 25, 2012 at 8:36 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: It stems equally from both and more. The gospels can be shown to have an evangelistic agendas tailored to their audiences. Most of the individual stories are not unlike many other stories of myths. Jesus dying and then rising is just another instance of the dying and rising god motif.
Interesting. Will you give me an example of one such motif?
Inanna, Romulus, Osiris, Zalmoxis, and Adonis are considered dying and rising gods.
Of course, none of them will match completely the story of Jesus, but they same basic elements
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).