RE: What do invented saints tell us about Christianity?
November 11, 2019 at 2:27 am
(This post was last modified: November 11, 2019 at 2:27 am by GrandizerII.)
(November 11, 2019 at 1:00 am)Fake Messiah Wrote:(November 11, 2019 at 12:38 am)Grandizer Wrote: Jesus was never believed to be a sun god. This falsehood is basically a rehash of the Acharya S/Zeitgeist Movie nonsense, and I sure hope nobody here actually believes this to be true when it's clearly false.
Never? So Jesus's traditional birthdate on 25 December, as the Roman sun god Sol Invictus and as traditional birth of the Sun is just a coincidence?
Not necessarily a coincidence, but it doesn't follow that Jesus was ever believed to be a sun god. The much later move to set Jesus' date of birth to December 25 might have been a political one, to replace the official state festival which celebrated the birth of the sun with a festival that celebrated the birth of Christ instead. And that's assuming that the Christians took the date from the pagans in the first place, rather than the other way around.