WorldsEdge wrote:
MCalavera wrote:
What makes this a joke isn't that you involved Superman. The joke is you think the concept of sun god and son of God are historically related to each other when it is, in fact, a connection that only recent frauds came up with in a vain attempt to discredit Christianity.
Even though Christianity is based on a lot of falsehoods, yours is just as ridiculous.
Given the synreticism inherent in Christianity from just about the get-go and for hundreds of years afterwards, I'm not sure why you're necessarily saying this. I admit that I haven't the foggiest idea what the point trying to be made in the OP is, but it seems a bit much to expect a new religion with initially only a few followers to NOT crib a few things from the main culture. Which in this case would have been a thoroughly Hellenized eastern Mediterranean. And said mythic tradition certainly had its share of divine births and even a few rebirths.
Christianity was mostly based on the Hebrew Scriptures. When you have people arguing that Jesus was a copycat of Krishna or Heracles or Dionysus or Mithras or Osiris or Horus or Buddha because they supposedly each had the exact same story of being born of a virgin, being baptized, having exactly twelve disciples, being called the Light and the Son of God and the Savior, dying on the cross, and being resurrected from the dead in three days, and then ascending to heaven in the exact same fashion as the story of Jesus. And then to add to that the idea that all of them were Sun Gods, you know they did nothing but sloppy research.
19 May 2013, 11:08 pm
