Is Christianity unique or not?

[Minimalist]

Carrier's description of the common elements of the mystery cults - including jesusism - is better than this but I would have to go looking for it and I don't have time right now.  The article below is a fairly decent substitute for the moment.   One must be careful to avoid the Acharya S type of nonsense in which exact parallels are searched for ( and of course, found ) between the various mythic saviors and the xtian godboy.  The development of all of these cults has Hellenistic philosophy combined with various local traditions.  Of course jesusism is not the same as the Dionysian cult.  If they were the same they would be the same cult instead of different ones.  Xhristards usually try to say "jesusism is different" (usually in a piteous whine) and we know and grant that, assholes.  That's why they are all different.  Guess what?  Mithraism was different from the Eleusinian Mysteries but they were both mystery cults.  As was your bullshit.

https://owlcation.com/humanities/The-Myt...e-or-False

During the first century, hundreds of mystery cults thrived. A mystery cult was a secret religion that involved the worship of a god (or gods and goddesses). Many of these gods were savior-gods, with rites and rituals that included baptisms, the symbolic eating of the flesh and blood of the god, and celebrations of the resurrection of the god.

Christianity may have begun as a mystery cult or it might have only assumed some of the beliefs and practices of these cults. Ancient pagan cultures shared a common set of ideas about gods. Christianity may have adopted those ideas, and applied them to Jesus. It seems entirely possible that Jesus Christ began as a celestial god, then became a character in allegorical stories, and finally was seen as a historical person who actually existed.

[I_am_not_mafia]

No plot is ever entirely original.

[Minimalist]

One of the most beneficial results of religious syncretism was when the Ottoman Turks took Constantinople and did not destroy the stained glass windows in the Hagia Sophia.  Somehow they managed to figure out a way to incorporate them into their new "mosque."

[Neo-Scholastic]

Thank you very much. Why (some) atheists want to discredit themselves with bullshit is beyond my understanding. 

Because it is human to take shortcuts. While many people do the heavy lifting of confirming what they have been told by seemingly credible authorities, many more do not. Or cannot. Who has the time? I am often shake my head at some of the anti-intellectualism in modern evangelical churchs and even Catholics have the fideists.

[Amarok]

Because it is human to take shortcuts. While many people do the heavy lifting of confirming what they have been told by seemingly credible authorities, many more do not. Or cannot. Who has the time? I am often shake my head at some of the anti-intellectualism in modern evangelical churchs and even Catholics have the fideists.

[Neo-Scholastic]

Here is the alternative meme for those who are interested. I'm not. I don't have a dog in this fight so I am only presenting not defending.

[Angrboda]

Oh, and:

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[Amarok]

Yay a baseless meme spewing Christian apologetics


You receive the slow clap of the unimpressed. Christianities central idea's are not unique and this stupid meme does not show otherwise .

[Minimalist]

Chad is a notorious asshole.  Always has been.

[Amarok]

Chad is a notorious asshole.  Always has been.

You don't need to tell me that . But i would would use the term pompous dumb ass instead