Re: BBC's 'The Passion'

"Roger Pearse" <roger.pearse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de
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On 1 Apr, 14:54, Giles <g_har...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
27 stumbling blocks for this atheist in accepting the Christian belief
that Jesus was God and ascended to heaven: "The following world
saviors and "sons of God," were crucified or executed and were
resurrected from the dead and ascended to heaven. They predate the so-
called Jesus Christ."http://www.destee.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41935

No, they were not.

1. Adad of Assyria
2. Adonis, Apollo, Heracles ("Hercules") and Zeus of Greece
3. Alcides of Thebes
4. Attis of Phrygia
5. Baal of Phoenicia
6. Bali of Afghanistan
7. Beddru of Japan
8. Buddha of India
9. Crite of Chaldea
10. Deva Tat of Siam
11. Hesus of the Druids
11. Horus, Osiris, and Serapis of Egypt, whose long-haired, bearded
appearance was adopted for the Christ character
12. Indra of Tibet/India
13. Jao of Nepal
14. Krishna of India
15. Mikado of the Sintoos
16.Mithraof Persia
17. Odin of the Scandinavians
18. Prometheus of Caucasus/Greece
19. Quetzalcoatl of Mexico
20. Salivahana of Bermuda
21. Tammuz of Syria (who was, in a typical mythmaking move, later
turned into the disciple Thomas
22. Thor of the Gauls
23. Universal Monarch of the Sibyls
24. Wittoba of the Bilingonese
25. Xamolxis of Thrace
26. Zarathustra/Zoroaster of Persia
27. Zoar of the Bonz

Satisfied?"

Not really. Why on earth didn't you verify this lie before posting
it?

Provide detailed references to the ancient sources for each of your
claims above.

A couple of points here. First of all, it would be a little difficult to
explain away, when a 'god made flesh' in one religion or another simply
drops down dead and that's an end to it. So to my mind, variants on the
ascension belief are an inevitable, predictable and convenient way for the
priesthoods in question to wriggle out of otherwise potentially awkward
situations. In other words, those beliefs and mythologies that have earthly
representatives of the divine are likely in every scenario that I can
conceive of to end up with some variation of the ascension/reincarnation
story.

Secondly few written records from ancient times have survived intact, for
obvious reasons.

One of the problems that I have with atheists is their tendency to
repeat unchecked any old falsehood if it seems convenient. How else
could such a list as above come into existence?

As very silly generalisations go, that's a whopper. If I said that one
problem I have with believers is their willingness to jump to conclusions
and pigeonhole atheists as liars, Christian contributors here would
criticise me straight away, and rightly so.

pga
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