RE: Atheists:Can you disprove the resurrection or Jesus' existence?
September 9, 2011 at 1:23 pm
(September 8, 2011 at 7:36 pm)padraic Wrote:Quote:Wouldn't this pretty much do it?
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcpa5b.htm
Oh for fuck sake! Not THAT drivel yet AGAIN! --and who has been watching Zeitgeist?
The Horus/ Jesus argument has been thoroughly debunked. Look it up,for goodness sake.
This is pure crackpot fringe stuff,appealing to the half-educated ,with a limited capacity for rational thought.
I'm not sure that you have point here. Not that I subscribe to the Horus/Jesus theory, but it's quite known that different cultures came into contact, and besides the normal trade of goods took place, ideas were also exchanged. We find many traits in these stories from culture to culture, continent to continent. A god born out of a virgin for instance is found in Greek and Roman mythologies. The idea of resurrection is found in so many diverse religions/cultures. The Jews of those ancient times were not isolated that they just couldn't borrowed from other cultures. They waged wars, traded with their neighbors, and some of them even dared to seek employment in other lands. That we now discovered that there are parallels between Horus, Mithra and Jesus should not surprise us.