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Similar? No, that's why everyone is laughing and rolling their eyes. Horus isn't similar - ISIS was no virgin amd it doesn't matter what metal she used to make Osiris' penis, the whole thing is hilarious but not similar. Mithras, whether or not you think the resurrection bit is similar, is too late and many scholars think the transmission actually went the other way, from Christianity to Mithraism.

If you want to keep insisting on that Christianity is a myth (which is a debatable premise itself) based on earlier myths, then you really need to come up with credible source myths that don't make everyone here roll their eyes. Yesterday you waved your hands and mumbled something about how maybe Horus and Mithras were based on a single earlier myth, but a hypothetical doesn't work as "evidence" and you need to name that earlier myth. Until then, so long as you keep basing your arguments on the silly HM, people will keep calling you Groundhog.[/quote]

"Everyone here" is not rolling their eyes.  There is no way to know that.  Making such a claim is an example of trying to discourage and dismiss points of view that threaten one's own -- similar to, but snarkier than other posters' attempts.

It's possible to embrace Christian teaching without believing Christian myth as fact.  It seems a shame that instead, some people who identify as Christian depend on rationalization and ad hominem attacks and subtle and not-so-subtle invitations for people presenting other information and points of view to please exit the conversation.[/quote]

Ad hominems? Have you checked out the abuse at 22:40? And you have no problem with it? Or was that you?

The only problem here is Groundhog's endless attempts to shove the silly and pointless Horus and Mithras stuff down everyones' throats and derailing several threads in the process. Nobody would mind so much if she had reason and logic on her side, but her random, unrelated myths don't cut it in adult conversation. You talk about shutting down conversations -- that's exactly the problem with Groundhog.
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ad hominems are never good, irrespective of who is hurling them.  If "Groundhog" had shut down the conversation, this thread would not still be going on.[/quote]

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