Is Christianity based on older myths?

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Leave it to a jesus freak to refuse to go read the source material provided and then trot out a forgery to back up his fucking godboy shit.

Blow me, asshole. If you can't use google to find Plutarch I'm not going to help you. I'm not your fucking secretary.

The examples I gave, Mithras and Osiris, were both mystery cults whereas Christianity was/is not.

Incorrect.

Notably all the mystery religions were products of the same sort of cultural syncretism. The Eleusinian mysteries were a syncretism of Levantine and Hellenistic elements; the mysteries of Attis and Cybele were a syncretism of Phrygian and Hellenistic elements; the mysteries of Jupiter Dolichenus were a syncretism of Anatolian and Hellenistic elements; Mithraism was a syncretism of Persian and Hellenistic elements; the mysteries of Isis and Osiris were a syncretism of Egyptian and Hellenistic elements. Christianity is simply a continuation of the same trend: a syncretism of Jewish and Hellenistic elements. Each of these cults is unique and different from all the others in nearly every detail-but it's the general features they all share in common that reflect the overall fad that produced them in the first place, the very features
that made them popular and successful within Greco-Roman culture.


Richard Carrier, On the Historicity of Jesus, pg. 100

Same shit in a different bag, Chad. Sucks to be you.