The upper article has an interesting sentence: "Dionysus, the god who dies and is reborn, promising the same to his devotees." which is an obvious parallel with Jesus and is older than Jesus. But there are other things attributed to Dionysius that was later attributed to Jesus like turning water into wine, and eggs. Eggs were symbols of life after death in the cult of Dionysus, but also other gods as eggs were frequently found in Egyptian tombs.
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"
