(February 20, 2015 at 11:53 pm)Nestor Wrote:(February 20, 2015 at 11:44 pm)YGninja Wrote: OP's entire post is a copy/paste, seemingly originating from a book called "Gospel Fictions" by Randel Helms, an English teacher with absolutely no relevant qualifications.I agree that there are profound dissimilarities between any two given myths. That's not really the point. The point is that they all propagated the same basic notions about the gods and man's relation to them. Jesus is just run-of-the-mill stuff, Christians regurgitating the themes and language of the ancient myths embedded in Judaism and the surrounding cultures, but with their own innovations to adapt Jewish history to Hellenistic philosophy, like Philo before them.
There are no direct quotes in support of any claim.
This mythicist idea was popular around the turn of the last century and can be associated with a rise of occultism in those times. All of this was refuted and dropped over a century ago. Its only interesting that today occultism is once again on the rise, and again these discredited theories are being circulated.
Needless to say, for instance in the case of Romulus, there are no direct quotes from the source, because there is no source, there is no founding document or documents, there is just a bunch of people at different times retelling an old tale, and that tale doesn't even include such things as a virgin birth.
"There is much debate and variation as to whom was the father of Romulus and Remus. Some myths claim that Mars appeared and lay with Rhea Silvia; other myths attest that the demi-god hero Hercules was her partner. Livy claims that Rhea Silvia was in fact raped by an unknown man, but blamed her pregnancy on divine conception."
http://www.ancient.eu/Romulus_and_Remus/
Divine conception, ie sex with a God, not to be confused with immaculate conception, ie conception without sex.
There is just absolutely nothing to any of these theories, Zeitgeist Refuted debunks them all. Atheists should really look into the origin of these myths, who pushes them, why. While they're at it, they should find out about "World Goodwill" - the Brainchild of "Lucifers Trust" publishing company which today shares a building with and is the spiritual grounding of the UN, (Heard of the UN's "World Goodwill Ambassadors", such as David Beckham, Angelina Jolie or the girl from Harry Potter?) albeit having changed their name to "Lucis Trust", after Lucifers Trust was a bit too conspicuous. I fear that particular rabbit hole goes down too far for most of you to handle, sadly.
Like what?
