(July 27, 2018 at 6:34 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(July 27, 2018 at 6:21 pm)JairCrawford Wrote: So I would say that it's perhaps a bit of a jump to insist that Diabolical Mimicry was a last gasp effort to make a rational argument about the similarities of Mithraism to their own faith when it could just as easily have been a reaction out of zeal because similar practices coexisted in the two religions for a time, and that was bothersome to them.
Huh?
I'm saying I don't see any reason to assume that the concept of Diabolical Mimicry was ever used as a defense against Mithraisms usage of the Eucharist predating theirs. That seems to be inferred by skeptics, but again, unless I'm missing something, it seems like a jump to assume.