RE: Is Christianity unique or not?
July 26, 2018 at 7:33 pm
(This post was last modified: July 26, 2018 at 7:33 pm by Fake Messiah.)
Sure, let's draw some parallels between Jesus and other gods and famous characters before him:
Jesus is baptized by a holy man which resembles rituals to Babylonian god Oannes.
He turns water into wine at a wedding and beyond - a miracle popularly attributed to Bacchus/Dionysus.
Also like Dionysus he brings back dead to life and can walk in the world of the dead and was a god of resurrection.
The cult of Dionysus was suppressed by Rome and supposedly thousands of people were executed.
There is even a play about Dionysus "The Bacchae" where Dionysus appears before some king on charges of claiming divinity.
He could calm seas like Poseidon.
He heals the sick, like miriads of health deities (Asclepius, Apollo, Isis, Hygieia...).
Jesus was betrayed by 30 silver coins while Socrates for 30 minae.
He descends into hell and on the third day arises from the dead, like Attis.
He resurrected at the spring equinox and celebrated with rabbits and painted eggs like Eostre.
Jesus is baptized by a holy man which resembles rituals to Babylonian god Oannes.
He turns water into wine at a wedding and beyond - a miracle popularly attributed to Bacchus/Dionysus.
Also like Dionysus he brings back dead to life and can walk in the world of the dead and was a god of resurrection.
The cult of Dionysus was suppressed by Rome and supposedly thousands of people were executed.
There is even a play about Dionysus "The Bacchae" where Dionysus appears before some king on charges of claiming divinity.
He could calm seas like Poseidon.
He heals the sick, like miriads of health deities (Asclepius, Apollo, Isis, Hygieia...).
Jesus was betrayed by 30 silver coins while Socrates for 30 minae.
He descends into hell and on the third day arises from the dead, like Attis.
He resurrected at the spring equinox and celebrated with rabbits and painted eggs like Eostre.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
