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Is Christianity unique or not?
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RE: Is Christianity unique or not?
(July 26, 2018 at 6:57 pm)JairCrawford Wrote: Frankly, Id like to know more about these "hundreds" of dying and rising savior gods. I have heard of Mithras as the proverbial elephant in the room but not much information about others.

And do try to remember that the earliest xtians did not deny the similarities but rather invented the absurd concept of Diabolical Mimicry as an excuse for why their godboy seemed so much like all the others.

http://www.holyblasphemy.net/diabolical-mimicry/


Quote:Conventional wisdom views Jesus Christ as being a novel and revolutionary person, whose message of love and kindness was rejected by the wicked Jews and Pagans, because they were evil and stupid. This is Christian propaganda of the worst kind, and absolutely untrue; the reason that many could not accept Jesus Christ, was because they saw him as an obvious copy of Pagan spiritual tradition. Those who argue against the historical Jesus point out that the Jesus Christ of the gospels didn’t say or do anything new – how could Jesus be the Word, Truth and Life, if his birth, death, resurrection, and every single detail of his earthly ministry was already recorded in earlier mythological traditions?

There is no question that these similarities exist, and were often pointed out to Christians of the first few centuries of the Church, because Christians were always defending themselves against them. In all of the collected literature of the early Church, however, the similarities between Jesus and other Pagan figures were never denied by Christians. Nor, as they are today, were they called accidents or coincidences. Instead, early Christians formulated the only possible explanation they could think of, an argument referred to as Diabolical Mimicry.
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Is Christianity unique or not? - by Graufreud - July 25, 2018 at 5:23 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by robvalue - July 25, 2018 at 6:02 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Fake Messiah - July 25, 2018 at 6:13 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by chimp3 - July 25, 2018 at 6:21 am
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RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by robvalue - July 25, 2018 at 6:38 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by SteveII - July 25, 2018 at 7:29 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by I_am_not_mafia - July 25, 2018 at 7:56 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Neo-Scholastic - July 25, 2018 at 10:56 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Succubus - July 25, 2018 at 9:21 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by SteveII - July 25, 2018 at 10:25 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Fake Messiah - July 26, 2018 at 4:46 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Succubus - July 25, 2018 at 9:10 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by brewer - July 25, 2018 at 9:17 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by robvalue - July 25, 2018 at 10:20 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Mister Agenda - July 25, 2018 at 10:15 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Succubus - July 25, 2018 at 10:53 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by SteveII - July 25, 2018 at 11:02 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by I_am_not_mafia - July 25, 2018 at 11:13 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Crossless2.0 - July 25, 2018 at 11:17 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by I_am_not_mafia - July 25, 2018 at 11:26 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Neo-Scholastic - July 25, 2018 at 11:45 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Whateverist - July 25, 2018 at 11:27 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by I_am_not_mafia - July 25, 2018 at 11:46 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Amarok - July 25, 2018 at 11:48 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Angrboda - July 25, 2018 at 12:18 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Minimalist - July 25, 2018 at 12:32 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Neo-Scholastic - July 25, 2018 at 12:45 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Minimalist - July 25, 2018 at 2:52 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Amarok - July 25, 2018 at 3:37 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by robvalue - July 25, 2018 at 2:58 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Minimalist - July 25, 2018 at 3:39 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by I_am_not_mafia - July 26, 2018 at 6:30 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Graufreud - July 26, 2018 at 8:00 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by I_am_not_mafia - July 26, 2018 at 8:13 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Amarok - July 26, 2018 at 8:24 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Graufreud - July 26, 2018 at 9:00 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Amarok - July 27, 2018 at 6:03 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Angrboda - July 27, 2018 at 6:05 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Amarok - July 27, 2018 at 6:12 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Mister Agenda - July 26, 2018 at 10:27 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Graufreud - July 26, 2018 at 11:40 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Neo-Scholastic - July 26, 2018 at 3:26 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by brewer - July 26, 2018 at 12:00 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Angrboda - July 26, 2018 at 12:02 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Minimalist - July 26, 2018 at 12:47 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by I_am_not_mafia - July 26, 2018 at 1:01 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Minimalist - July 26, 2018 at 1:19 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Amarok - July 26, 2018 at 3:45 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Neo-Scholastic - July 26, 2018 at 3:53 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Angrboda - July 26, 2018 at 3:59 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Amarok - July 26, 2018 at 4:05 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Minimalist - July 26, 2018 at 4:19 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Amarok - July 26, 2018 at 4:25 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Mister Agenda - July 27, 2018 at 9:19 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Minimalist - July 26, 2018 at 4:35 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by JairCrawford - July 26, 2018 at 6:57 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Minimalist - July 26, 2018 at 7:13 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by JairCrawford - July 27, 2018 at 6:21 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Angrboda - July 27, 2018 at 6:34 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by JairCrawford - July 27, 2018 at 6:53 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Silver - July 26, 2018 at 7:00 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by JairCrawford - July 26, 2018 at 7:10 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by JairCrawford - July 26, 2018 at 7:22 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by JairCrawford - July 26, 2018 at 7:32 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Angrboda - July 26, 2018 at 7:30 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Fake Messiah - July 26, 2018 at 7:33 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by JairCrawford - July 26, 2018 at 8:08 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Minimalist - July 26, 2018 at 8:35 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Graufreud - July 27, 2018 at 7:03 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Whateverist - July 27, 2018 at 7:25 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Fake Messiah - July 27, 2018 at 8:29 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by I_am_not_mafia - July 27, 2018 at 8:53 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Minimalist - July 27, 2018 at 11:21 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by JairCrawford - July 27, 2018 at 12:38 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Neo-Scholastic - July 27, 2018 at 11:27 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Minimalist - July 27, 2018 at 12:12 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Angrboda - July 27, 2018 at 11:29 am
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by LastPoet - July 27, 2018 at 4:09 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Amarok - July 27, 2018 at 1:01 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Minimalist - July 27, 2018 at 6:54 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by JairCrawford - July 27, 2018 at 7:02 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Minimalist - July 27, 2018 at 7:41 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by JairCrawford - July 27, 2018 at 10:37 pm
RE: Is Christianity unique or not? - by Minimalist - July 28, 2018 at 1:10 am

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