To The Jesus Myth Theorist

[michaelsherlock]

No, I have respect for scholarship and contempt for willful ignorance.

Discernment.

What can I say!!

 

[angellous_evangellous]

What can I say!!

Angellous is my Daddy

 

[michaelsherlock]

Angellous is my Daddy

No wonder I am deformed!

 

[angellous_evangellous]

We can both be grateful, then that

THIS .... ISN'T..... SPARTA!!!!!! arhrhrhrhrh

 

[michaelsherlock]

We can both be grateful, then that

THIS .... ISN'T..... SPARTA!!!!!! arhrhrhrhrh

Nice!

 

[angellous_evangellous]

Nice!

If you agree with me too much, you'll find that you're more beautiful, intelligent, and your sense of humor will blossom into an incredibly sophisticated art.

 

[michaelsherlock]

If you agree with me too much, you'll find that you're more beautiful, intelligent, and your sense of humor will blossom into an incredibly sophisticated art.

Then I shall continue to agree, where possible!

 

[angellous_evangellous]

Then I shall continue to agree, where possible!

Good for you.

 

[sojourner]

If you agree with me too much, you'll find that you're more beautiful, intelligent, and your sense of humor will blossom into an incredibly sophisticated art.

And if you place your hands on your computer screen, on top of his avatar, you'll quite possibly be healed of your forum infirmities...
:super:

 

[Me Myself]

Their paralels of Jesus with buddha and Horus didn´t seem reasonable when I searched about them.

They said buddha and Horus came from virgin mothers, as far as I know that ain´t true AT ALL. (I mean, okay, a golden penis should pretty much be more of a dildo than an actual "you are pregnate" tool, but quite honestly it is simbolicaly and supernaturaly VERY different to say Horus was son of both his mommy and daddy god via sex with a golden penis than Jesus being son of Gog-god with a "holy spirit-grace you are pregnate" to a mortal woman)

 

[Quagmire]

I have a question for any Jesus Myth theorists in here:

When and how do you believe Christianity (in any form) first arose?

 

[maxfreakout]

I have a question for any Jesus Myth theorists in here:

When and how do you believe Christianity (in any form) first arose?

It evolved out of Hellenistic religion

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

It evolved out of Hellenistic religion

<yawn> the thin gruel of shallow ad hominem laced conspiracy theory turned mindless mantra </yawn>

 

[Heathen Hammer]

How's that an ad hom?

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

How's that an ad hom?

 

[Heathen Hammer]

So, it's not really, then? It's not an ad hom to say that a religion got some outside influence from nearby cultures.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

So, it's not really, then? It's not an ad hom to say that a religion got some outside influence from nearby cultures.

What a moronic (and worthless) example of disingenuous spin.

 

[Heathen Hammer]

What a lame non-explanation with little respect for others
I will not pray for you

 

[maxfreakout]

How's that an ad hom?

That poster doesnt know what 'ad hominem' means, here is a post from another thread where he uses the term incorrectly:
http://www.religiousforums.com/forum/2823799-post34.html


that poster should read this:
Ad hominem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[maxfreakout]

So, it's not really, then? It's not an ad hom to say that a religion got some outside influence from nearby cultures.

There's a good book about the Hellenistic cultural milieu from out which christianity evolved, 'Hellenistic religion' by Luther Martin. He suggests that the underlying theme which links together the hellenistic traditions such as orphism and mithraism and later christianity is that of 'transcendence of heimarmene' (overcoming one's predestined fate)

quote:
"Christianity emerged from the linguistic and imagistic conventions of the hellenistic world and belonged to its array of religious alternatives, it was an initiatory cult open to all races, classes and sexes"