Roger Pearse

Thank you for your comment. From this I learn only that you like the idea, but are unable to examine it critically. That is not a very good start, you know!

All the best,

Roger Pearse

veclock

Um, to all who say this is bullshit:
Doesn't it make alot of sense when the sun "dies" three days on the cross?

Antipope Innocent II

Ummm, no actually. That makes no sense astronomically and it makes no sense etymologically either. Nor does it make any sense in relation to any earlier myths, unless you define "parallel" in the most comical of New Age senses of the word. Then extrapolate "derivation" from that kind of stupid contrivance.

Which is why this nonsense has been kooky fringe crank theorist crap for about 100 years now. No serious scholar - atheist, agnostic, Jewish or Christian - touches this garbage. So it's not surprising to find it hitched to the wagon of a squirming grab-bag of other ridiculous, crackpot ideas.

Birds of a feather and all that.

Yellum Notnef

Starting? I'm already done and over this bullshit you're wasting your life obsessing over.

And why is it an ad hominem to actually say what it is we all know you believe? Other than it looking pretty silly when you shine a light on it, I don't see the problem.:huh:

And to whom it may concern, I'm not in support of the "every god was just like Jesus" idea. But a pizza is still a pizza regardless of if it's pepperoni or Hawaiian.
All this recent Christian nitpicking over Mithra and the other gods of the area seems like a last resort to win any small victory at all. In the end it does absolutely nothing to prove Jesus is real.

What I liked about the video was that it was the first place I've ever seen the movement of the sun and constellations explained so clearly with animations. Quite a bit of the rest was crap.

veclock

I don't get it. Should all this be a coincidence?
http://www.theosophical.ca/AncientEgyptAppendix.htm

Even Moses is taken from earlier stories:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sargon_of_Akkad

"...My high priestess mother conceived me, in secret she bore me. She set me in a basket of rushes, with bitumen she sealed my lid. She cast me into the river which rose over me. The river bore me up and carried me to Akki, the drawer of water. Akki, the drawer of water, took me as his son and reared me. Akki, the drawer of water, appointed me as his gardener. While I was a gardener, Ishtar granted me her love, and for four and […] years I exercised kingship."

Yellum Notnef

Yes. When it comes to Christianity everything is a coincidence or a trick of the devil. Jesus is special. Didn't you know that?:wave:

GakuseiDon

No, they are definitely not coincidences IMHO. There is obvious influence, in one direction or another.

I love how the list of similarities between Horus and Jesus are growing! Most I've seen most that are listed on that website before, but these had me scratching my head:

Horus (Iu), the son of a beetle .... .... .... Jesus, the good Scarabaeus.
Horus (or Ra) as the great cat .... .... .... Jesus as the cat.
Horus as the shrewmouse .... .... .... The mouse of Jesus dedicated to “Our Lady.”

Jesus as beetle, cat and mouse? Anyone heard of those?

Roger Pearse

I'm sorry that you dealt with my posts by reflex. Unfortunately any hypothesis that cannot be discussed rationally need hardly be considered by the rest of us.

All the best,

Roger Pearse

Antipope Innocent II

I don't get it. We're meant to be taking Theosophist nonsense seriously? What next - phrenology?

How can any reasonable atheist bother with this antiquated and pseudo historical crap? What year is this - 1886?

Give me a break.

Toto

Don't burst a blood vessel or anything. It's all a game.

After all, a lot of people think the same thing about people who take 2000 year old theological documents seriously, but we try to maintain good relations with some of our fellow citizens who do.