(August 13, 2015 at 4:04 am)Aractus Wrote:(August 13, 2015 at 3:53 am)Redbeard The Pink Wrote: Ok, that is simply not true. Christianity comes along at a time in history when Hellenistic Mystery Cults were extremely common in the Roman Empire
Where's your academic evidence for that assertion?
Fuck, really?
Ok, we're talking 1st to 4th century if we're describing the early spread of Christianity, right? Just a few extant Greco-Roman Mysteries at the time include:
The Cult of Attis
The Cult of Cybele
The Mysteries of Isis
The Dionysian Mysteries
The Eleusinian Mysteries
The Mithraic Mysteries
The Cult of Sabazios
The Samothracean Mysteries
Those were just the ones I could readily find dates for. Of this list, Dionysus is particularly interesting, since he's a both a dying-and-rising god and the grapes for his wine were said to be his living body as they cultivated it...gosh, that's not that much of a stretch from that one dying-and-rising god whose followers believe bread and wine represent his body...who was that guy again? Oh, wait, that's right...
When I say "hard evidence" I mean something other than what was written about him. You telling me that scholars say hard evidence exists is next to meaningless. What evidence?
Verbatim from the mouth of Jesus (retranslated from a retranslation of a copy of a copy):
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)
Also, I has a website: www.RedbeardThePink.com
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)
Also, I has a website: www.RedbeardThePink.com
