Evidence for Jesus Christ?

[Gawdzilla]

Parallels between the stories of
Jesus and Osiris-Dionysus

[Rwandrall]

Parallels between the stories of
Jesus and Osiris-Dionysus

That was never convincing to me...first, they stretched the stories to make the similarities seem more important, and second, considering the insane amount of pagan religions, Gods and Godesses in each of these religions, and the lack of imagination of primitive humans...the law of large numbers alone is enough to explain these similarities.

[Gawdzilla]

Parallels between the stories of
Jesus and Osiris-Dionysus

That was never convincing to me...first, they stretched the stories to make the similarities seem more important, and second, considering the insane amount of pagan religions, Gods and Godesses in each of these religions, and the lack of imagination of primitive humans...the law of large numbers alone is enough to explain these similarities.

Or they stole from older religions, filed off the serial numbers and sold it as new. I imagine a guy traveling to a distant town for some reason, hearing of this particular god and it's history, and returning to share this with the other goat-herders. The local priest pops up and say, "No, that's not Thor, that's our own god, Benito!" And from then on Benito has a super-hammer and eats his chariot's prime movers every night.

[fr0d0]

Judaism drew from other religious expression at the time and is written in the same language, using the same references and metaphors in the most part. What made it stand apart was that people were Gods representatives on earth as opposed to servants. The purposes in both are quite distinctly opposite.

[Minimalist]

God's representative on earth, my ass.

"Again, if God, like Jupiter in the comedy, should, on awaking from a lengthened slumber, desire to rescue the human race from evil, why did He send this Spirit of which you speak into one corner (of the earth)? He ought to have breathed it alike into many bodies, and have sent them out into all the world. Now the comic poet, to cause laughter in the theatre, wrote that Jupiter, after awakening, despatched Mercury to the Athenians and Lacedaemonians; but do not you think that you have made the Son of God more ridiculous in sending Him to the Jews?"...


-- Celsus c. 175 AD)

[thesummerqueen]

Since I'm feeling charitable this morning I'll dig out the reference from Origen.

I hope your wife knows how you never disappoint.

[Minimalist]

Since I'm feeling charitable this morning I'll dig out the reference from Origen.

I hope your wife knows how you never disappoint.

[thesummerqueen]

[Minimalist]

True story. Yesterday morning I was out doing a dog rescue. I got home, emailed my report in to my coordinator and went to watch the Yankee game. An hour later the coordinator sent the report out to everyone and noted my "tireless" efforts to get the dog moved to her new home. I said to my wife " Sharon's laying it on a little thick, today."

She replied, "if your so tireless how come you haven't taken down the curtain rod in the bathroom?"

A man is never appreciated in his own home!

[thesummerqueen]

Well...why haven't you?

rofl