Jesus was a copycat. (Sklansky, did you know this?)

[Steve00007]

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When you look at how all religions that you have no belief in have progressed, it should be obvious that they are just stories, myths and legends that have been passed down through the generations. If one certain sect of stories happen before the same set of stories (in a different religion) it lends them more credibility because they obviously couldn’t have copied off the later coming religion.

With that in mind, did you know that sixteen different gods that predated Jesus lived very similar lives, more specifically they all:

- claimed to be the son of god
- were born of a virgin mother
- the mother’s name was Mary, or a derivitive of the word Mary
- were in a temple, scolding and training elders by age twelve
- the ruler of the land, fearing the son of god was born, tried to put him to death
- told by someone greater than they, moved to a foreign land to save their life
- began their ministry by age 30
- ended their ministry by age 33
- killed on the cross

In case you were wondering, the sixteen were:

Chrishna of India, 1200 B.C.
Hindoo Sakia of the Hindu, 600 B.C.
Thammuz of Seria, 1160 B.C.
Wittoba of the Telingonesic, 552 B.C.
Iao of Napal, 622 B.C.
Hesus of the Celtic Druids, 834 B.C.
Quexalcote of Mexico, 587 B.C.
Quirinus of Rome, 506 B.C.
Prometheus of of Caucasus, 547 B.C.
Thulis of Egypt, 1700 B.C.
Indra of Tibet, 725 B.C.
Alcestos of Euripides, 600 B.C.
Atys of Phrygia, 1170 B.C.
Crite of Chaldea, 1200 B.C.
Bali of Orissa, 725 B.C.
Mithra of Persia, 600 B.C.

I personally find this to be very damaging to the validity of Christianity.

Thoughts?

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Were any of the 16 thought to rise from the dead?

"Were any of the 16 thought to rise from the dead?"

Yes. You can google some of them to find out.

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"Were any of the 16 thought to rise from the dead?"

Yes. You can google some of them to find out.

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asdfasd32,

That means very little, if nothing, if most cited references in the google search are of Graves. Like the bible, not even Google is to be taken at face value! You are falling in the same trap than bible litteralists by repeating statements without checking. lol