BlueAbyss wrote:
Yes, I think someone needs to review the myth of Horus. There are similarities between the story of Jesus and the myth of Osiris/Horus, as well as Mithra and others. But they're only similarities, not exact details, and pinning the date December 25th on the birth of Horus is deliberately deceptive, IMO. (It mightn't be that off-base with Mithra, mind you.) Also, Osiris wasn't crucified, he was dismembered. Virgin birth is a common theme in many myths, because it represents a pure state of being from which the god is believed to spring. But that's not proof of anything either - that Jesus existed or not.
Yes, correlation is not causation. But even the virgin birth part is something you'll hardly spot in any of the other mythologies.
A virgin birth is supposedly when someone is born through a woman who is still a virgin.
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So yeah, BS. But there is no "proof" that Jesus was a real individual or wasn't, or that Moses was or wasn't. Or the Buddha was or wasn't. Religion isn't about proof anyway, is it? Unless you're a fundamentalist.
There's no proof for any historical character really. But one can count on Occam's razor to demonstrate that it is more likely that Jesus existed than that he did not. Of course, I'm referring to a normal human Jesus here. The supernatural exaggerated version is most likely just fictional.
07 Jan 2013, 8:06 pm
