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I agree that many stories are shared.  The story of Noah wasn't the only flood story of its era, and in fact we have a friend who has been involved in underwater archaeology in the Black Sea to investigate this among other things.

The HM stories, however, are so far removed from the Christ story - factually in the case of Osirus' golden penis and chronologically in the case of Mithras - that the argument for a connection seems extremely weak. To a history buff like me,[b] the fact that Mithras didn't appear among Roman soldiers until after Christ's death totally kills the whole Mithras claim[/b], and there's no way anybody with an understanding of simple chronology could continue to insist that this is "evidence." So you can continue to insist that HM are "evidence," and you continue to think that Christians are just unwilling to accept the connection. We will continue to think that you're chronologically challenged. [/quote]

Not necessarily -- the christ myth and the mithras myth could have developed independently, about the same time, based on earlier myths.  As is well known, the first gospels weren't written until decades after the death of Jesus.  And as others have said, the fact that myths are not identical doesn't mean they are not related - it suggests - as we already know from other myths from other civilizations, that similar themes are repeated across cultures.
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Then the burden is on the HM poster to name this earlier, seminal myth and to establish links to both Mithras in Persia and Christ in Roman Jerusalem. Horus and Mithras are dead ends logically and chronologically, and the HM poster/Groundhog will continue to be mocked until she comes up with something more credible.[/quote]

There's no burden on anyone to do anything here, except to act with a certain level of civility.[/quote]

True enough. But if you keep derailing threads by calling Horus and Mithras "evidence" of anything relevant, then people will laugh at you and call you Groundhog/Horus-Mithras Poster/Mithras Mary. That's just how it works.[/quote]

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