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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There was no claim about "causation," Granddaddy's Girl.  fact is we're all influenced by the past . . .

Just b/c you can't get it through your head that myths were indeed instrumental in explaining the world around you doesn't mean you're right.

You moronic Christians have no ability to think critically, to make connections, to get past your insular worlds.

It's all about the bible and Jesus and his virgin birth and the Holy Spirit and his death and his resurrection.

So he had to DIE in order to free our souls.  ever think about that one, dumb ass?  He died, descended into hell to FREE the souls condemned down there so that they, too, could hit heaven.

oh yeah - We have evidence to prove that.

So I guess if those imprisoned in hell could hit heaven, why can't an atheist?

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Gosh, this mean-spirited, poorly reasoned, poorly punctuated rant really makes me respect the author's POV.

I don't think anybody disagrees with you that we're all "influenced by the past."  The disagreement is over the leap you make to "therefore, the Jesus birth narrative can't possibly be true and, because all stories [you insist] are based on earlier stories, the Jesus story must be based on Horus and Mithras." (The causation bit.)

As for finding positive proof of the Jesus narrative, many of us see the four gospels, written so soon after his death, together with the beauty and logic of the message, to be compelling proof. Certainly more compelling than an argument that 1. there is nothing new under the sun, story-wise, therefore 2. Horus and Mithras, despite the massive narrative dissimilarities and chronological issues. Anyway, since you don't believe, it doesn't seem worth spending so much of your time and emotional energy on this, so why don't you let us worry about satisfying ourselves re proof.[/quote]

^^^ Reading this over, I should have stopped at "compelling." The gospels are evidence, but they aren't proof. Horus-Mithras, however, given the aforesaid massive narrative dissimilarities and chronological issues, can't even be called "evidence" of much of anything. That's why people laugh. Far from being evidence, HM doesn't lend even weak support for a mis-applied theory that every story is based on earlier stories, as opposed to having its own origins and truth. That's the issue. [/quote]

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