(February 3, 2015 at 9:49 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Mithras, Osiris and the rest are just myths and were understood as such by their adherents. Jesus Christ, on the other hand, was a real person and the early Christians knew that.
Are you saying that the followers of older religions knew their religions were false while they were practicing them? Why would someone invest their time and energy into a religion they felt was not real?