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Christian Apologetics and Arguments are Futile
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RE: Christian Apologetics and Arguments are Futile
(October 29, 2013 at 10:21 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: I was reffering to the teaching of christ, not his action per se. However if you want to get into that then that is a whole can of worms on it's own.
For example Horus was born of the virgin isis
or dionysus who was killed and raised after three days
Oh that also include attis, mithras and krishna as well.
I think that you will find Christianity has very little in the way of originality.

Set killed osiris and chopped him into 14 pieces and scattered them. Isis managed to recover 13 of them, but had to rebuild his phallus out of gold(I think). Then she then did the nasty with the frankenstein god and conceived horus with the aid of thoth's magic. Not quite what I call a virgin birth.

The Mithras/Jesus comparison is deceptive, since were actually two different cults. One pre-dates Jesus by a few centuries and is I think persian in origin. The later mithraic cult post-dates Jesus. This latter cult is the one from which the comparisons are drawn. The two cults have become conflated over time.

I'm not so hot on the others but I believe Dionysus became deified after being killed, so I'll leave it up to individuals to decide if parallels can be drawn or not

(October 29, 2013 at 7:48 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Even the Christian narrative points to it: Jesus was a kid, and did nothing special. He traveled (just for hoots?) to Asia Minor , and came back saying things that suprised the locals. It's almost like he was a backpacker studying foreign religions, and then incorporated them into a new fusion religion, isn't it?

Why doesn't the Bible say what he was doing during that time? Obvious answer: because then everyone would know where his religious ideas really came from.
Ooh! I know that one! He was a child killing, snake exploding, tamer of dragons!

I shit you notCool Shades
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RE: Christian Apologetics and Arguments are Futile - by Chas - October 29, 2013 at 9:56 am
RE: Christian Apologetics and Arguments are Futile - by Optimistic Mysanthrope - October 29, 2013 at 10:56 pm
RE: Christian Apologetics and Arguments are Futile - by Ayen - November 3, 2013 at 10:30 am
RE: Christian Apologetics and Arguments are Futile - by Ayen - November 4, 2013 at 3:43 am

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