Is Christianity based on older myths?

[Drich]

Mythra is the other big one, in that the religion is said to be much older, but it's oldest ' holy book' can only be dated back to the 13th century AD.

Meaning the religion maybe older than dirt but the text that claims similar orgins to christianity was written 1300 years after Christianity...

That's because your fellow cultists are lousy preservers of anything that can't be misconstrued and sold to the sheep.

Fortunately, there are other ways besides writings that we can learn about ancient Mythraism:

"Numerous archeological finds, including meeting places, monuments, and artifacts, have contributed to modern knowledge about Mithraism throughout the Roman Empire.[8] The iconic scenes of Mithras show him being born from a rock, slaughtering a bull, and sharing a banquet with the god Sol (the Sun). About 420 sites have yielded materials related to the cult. Among the items found are about 1000 inscriptions, 700 examples of the bull-killing scene (tauroctony), and about 400 other monuments.[9] It has been estimated that there would have been at least 680–690 mithraea in Rome."
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraic_mysteries

So.. from seemingly random sculptures and mosaics ,That could be depicting any number of things (Because their isnt any thing written till the 13th century AD that ties those ancient art works together)

You're saying that those Much older artistic dipictions coroborate, The 13th century mythra text somehow.

And because the Art work is older, and the 13th century text mentions the scenes found in art work... that somehow it verifies the 13th century literary work is 100% factually repersents the religion dedicated to mythra when the art work was made?!?!?!


IDK, what if someone in the 13th century simply wanted to tie several different religions together and included the art work under the name of Mythra?

That's what Mohammad did around about that time for Islam...