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To: kawaii

Well, there was Mithra... some say we ripped off Christ from that.


42 posted on 04/03/2007 9:14:53 AM PDT by ichabod1 ("Liberals read Karl Marx. Conservatives UNDERSTAND Karl Marx." Ronald Reagan)
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To: ichabod1

1. there’s precious little actual evidence as to what the cult of mithras beleived.

2. there’s zero proof as to which influenced which. (but a ton more actual evidence as to when christianity was founded, and what it beleived and when)

3. st paul traveled to antioch (i’m fairly sure it was antioch) where the cult of mithras was prevelent, this is used to suggest he copied parts of the mithran ideas; hint: it’s just as likely that the Christianity St Paul preached had an influence on the cult of mithras!

4. 90% of the similarities ascribed to the cult of mithras and Christianity are laughably untrue. For instance Mithras was aledged to be born of a virgin in a cave. this is true in as much as mithras was born out of a rock which presumably left a cave in its wake and presumably had never had sexual relations with any other rocks.


46 posted on 04/03/2007 9:34:00 AM PDT by kawaii (Orthodox Christianity -- Proclaiming the Truth Since 33 A.D.)
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To: ichabod1
Well, there was Mithra... some say we ripped off Christ from that.

Or the other way around. The cult of Mithra became popular at the same time that Christianity was growing. In many ways, the baptism rite of the cult of Mithra probably came as an idea from Christianity. It certainly didn't predate it.

56 posted on 04/03/2007 9:53:15 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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