(May 1, 2011 at 1:55 pm)Rwandrall Wrote:Or they stole from older religions, filed off the serial numbers and sold it as new. I imagine a guy traveling to a distant town for some reason, hearing of this particular god and it's history, and returning to share this with the other goat-herders. The local priest pops up and say, "No, that's not Thor, that's our own god, Benito!" And from then on Benito has a super-hammer and eats his chariot's prime movers every night.(May 1, 2011 at 12:29 pm)Gawdzilla Wrote: Parallels between the stories of
Jesus and Osiris-Dionysus
That was never convincing to me...first, they stretched the stories to make the similarities seem more important, and second, considering the insane amount of pagan religions, Gods and Godesses in each of these religions, and the lack of imagination of primitive humans...the law of large numbers alone is enough to explain these similarities.
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