RE: I used to have a neutral stance with religion.
January 3, 2012 at 6:53 pm
(This post was last modified: January 3, 2012 at 7:06 pm by Paradoxum.)
(January 3, 2012 at 5:59 pm)aleialoura Wrote: So you dismiss the video without watching it. How very Christian of you. It's actually not BS. The similarities were there for a long time. Atheists just pointed them out.
You seem like you're trapped in your god box to me. I know it's a warm and comforting blanket, but world history wasn't written or changed by atheists.
Did I say I was a Christian? I disbelieve more than I believe, though I still have same belief still left in me that I am slowly losing. Your are right that the God box is warm and comforting, I had a very love Christian upbringing and it rather sad to leave it. I still call the Horus story BS though and as I said, I had heard it all before. There are too many similarities for it to be anything but made up. The comparison I mean.
Get me some credible links with credible Egyptian professors and I may believe you. Even get me a credible translation of the text which says these things. If it is true then it is the best candidate to destroy Christianity.
Here's a link to something that may or may not be biased: http://www.philvaz.com/apologetics/Jesus...aviors.htm, click on dying and rising gods at the top.
"On the "dying and rising gods" motif the Encyclopedia of Religion (1987) concludes:
"The category of dying and rising gods, once a major topic of scholarly investigation, must now be understood to have been largely a misnomer based on imaginative reconstructions and exceedingly late or highly ambiguous texts....In most cases, the decipherment and interpretation of texts in the language native to the deity's cult has led to questions as to the applicability of the category. The majority of evidence for Near Eastern dying and rising deities occurs in Greek and Latin texts of late antiquity, usually post-Christian in date." ("Dying and Rising Gods", volume 4, pages 521, 522 article by Jonathan Z. Smith, from The Encyclopedia of Religion, edited by Mircea Eliade, emphasis added)"
"Thou believest in love as a divine attribute because thou thyself lovest; thou believest that God is a wise, benevolent being because thou knowest nothing better in thyself than benevolence and wisdom." - L.Feuerbach