Jesus, 2000 years ago

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Don't know if this is exactly true, but here it goes

Interesting...you admit you don't care about evidence regarding claims that reinforce your existing prejudices.

Yeah, most of that stuff is over-stated. The fact is that the ANE had plenty of dying/resurrected vegetation gods and people like Acharya S. hurt their case by trying to tie every aspect of the much-later jesus story into them.

These gods/goddesses were invented to explain the changing of the seasons and that was an important consideration for agricultural societies of primitive men. There is no need to try to tie Dionysius and Tammuz and jesus together in too tight a yoke.

Male examples include the ancient Near Eastern, Greek, and Norse deities Baal,[7] Melqart,[8] Adonis,[9] Eshmun,[10] Tammuz,[11] Ra the Sun god with its fusion with Osiris/Orion,[12] Jesus, and Dionysus.[13] Female examples include Inanna/Ishtar, Persephone,[14] and Bari.

Jebus was the last in a long line of such bullshit gods.... and there is no need to give the jesus freaks an easy target for dismissal as the pictures above do.