(October 2, 2012 at 10:37 pm)Polaris Wrote:(October 2, 2012 at 11:22 am)FallentoReason Wrote: Yeah I completely agree, but to say Mithraism was a gathering of neighbours over food at best is actually quite laughable. Don't get me wrong, I'm not mocking you here, but I'm seriously wondering to myself if you're genuinely being serious with your view about Mithraism and their holy communion.
Because they served different purposes. It was not a holy communion, but more as a form of initiation....think stereotypical Iron Age Germanic paganism.
Justin Martyr blows your cover. He states that these devils had the same rituals and goes even further to say that Paganism is at times an exact mimicry of what Jesus did, which of course, must have been set up by the devil to derail the faithful. He mentions things like Dionysus (god of wine and winemaking) is only similar to Christ (who turned water to wine) because it's all a set up.
It's safe to say Justin was possibly one of the sloppiest apologists to ever live. Of course that sort of backwards thinking to prove Jesus was the truth over all other traditions that pre-existed for centuries was perfectly fine back then.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
