(July 27, 2018 at 6:54 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote: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.
Last gasp? More like the first gasp, you mean. Look, these were xtians who came up with that one. You may find it embarrassing now but clearly they didn't.
It doesn't surprise me nor is it embarrassing because Christians still use that argument today, myself included, for current theological issues. lol
I am talking about a specific implication, namely that 'because these early Christians resorted to such desperate tactics as this, it must mean that it was the Christians who copied Mithraism's earlier practices'.
^ I am saying that to assert that assumption, is a jump.
