What are your answers?

[DeistPaladin]

ohhhhhhh boy. Id love to hear how william lane craig explains the similarities of jesus to all those other gods. I mean truly, william lane craig has all the answers since god hasnt talked to us lately.

It's been my experience arguing with apologists that the similarities to other dying-and-rising gods is actually one of the weakest approaches to question Christianity. The apologist is usually prepared with answers to downplay the similarities and unless you're an expert in all these pagan myths, only the lines of having academically studied them, you won't be ready to debate them in detail.

I've found that the stronger way to go is simply to argue from their favorite source, the Bible. Show how the different account contradict each other and what we know of the actual history of the time. The fact is that even if Jesus is an original myth with only minor similarities to other pagan gods, the Christians have never told a coherent story from the get-go, never mind offered solid proof that any of it happened.

By the time Acharya S arrives on the scene, she's just bouncing around the rubble (to use a military slang term for bombing an already bombed out target). Even if she and others like her are full of crap, the burden remains on the Christians to clean up their story, free it of contradictions, square it with history and then provide proof that it's real. Since they can do none of these things, they lose, with or without pagan similarities.