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Furthermore, Cain killed Abel just as Set killed Osiris.  Claudius killed his brother in the famous Shakespearean play. So the stories live on.[/quote]

Logic, please. You say this like every story must be based on some earlier story. Not true. Sometimes stories (Hamlet) are based on timeless human truths. Brothers kill each other, and Shakespeare didn't have to look back to Cain and Able to come up with this plot line. Moreover, the story about Cain and Able doesn't invaldate actual incidents of fratricide that occur 1000s of years later. So why should some pre-existing story (involving far-fetched golden penises  and/or chronological errors, no less) have any bearing on the truth of God sending Jesus? [/quote]

Elizabethan Theatre was based on Greek and Roman models.  
http://shakespearean.org.uk/elizthea1.htm

[quote]Originally English Tragedies and Comedies tended to be written in close imitation of Greek and Roman models and much was made of the Classical rules of writing plays - rules which Renaissance writers took from Aristotle’s Poetics and expanded upon.[/quote]

Furthermore, the bible (yikes) was oftentimes inspiration for Shakespeare's plays.

http://www.shakespeare-online.com/faq/shakespeareinspired.html
[quote]However, we can see from Shakespeare's work that no source had a more profound impact on his writing than the Bible. [/quote][quote][/quote]

And are you questioning his obsession with Cain and Abel?

lol

http://www.shakespeare-online.com/quotes/shakespeareoncain.html

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My point is this - that we ALL influenced by past events and stories.  And these stories live on forever in great works.  They're known as ALLUSIONS.

Go study, my friend, and you'll start to see connections.  Literature is based on myth, and the bible is literature.

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Ahem. My grandfather was a world-renowned (and I do mean the "world" part) expert on Shakespeare. Everything you post is blindingly obvious to any high school student. Any gibbon or groundhog can google Shakespeare snippets until he's blue in the face.

Fact is, all this still has no logical bearing on Horus, Mithras, and Jesus. You're not making a coherent argument when you claim that because Shakesoeare used biblucal references (and who didn't, back then) to Cain, this means that Jesus is derived from other myths.

Go back and read the posts about syllogisms, correlation and causation. From a logical perspective, the existence of two similar things (although the thinking person doesn't agree that HM are similar to Jesus) does not prove that one CAUSED the other. Did you know that some historians think that Jesus caused the Mithras myth, and not the other way around.[/quote]

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