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Pagan influences on the biblical stories of Jesus' life
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RE: Pagan influences on the biblical stories of Jesus' life
There's a youtuber named Aron Ra that talks a lot about the connections, influences, and developments between Judaism/Christianity and other cultures. I know they borrowed the idea of Satan from the Persians, and supposedly Yahweh had a wife named Ashrah or something like that at one point or another before she got deleted from his continuity.


Richard Carrier is a good source concerning the connections between Christianity and some of the mystery cults from that age. He notes a repurposing of dying-and-rising gods from seasonal, agricultural symbols to personal saviors, along with a few other trends that are present in Christianity.


There are some Egyptian stories that describe Isis as giving a virgin birth, but there are other versions of that story that involve a detached, golden penis, so I'm not sure how much that had to do with Jesus. Probably not much.
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)

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RE: Pagan influences on the biblical stories of Jesus' life - by Redbeard The Pink - April 7, 2016 at 11:38 pm

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