On Wed, 07 May 2008 07:09:32 -0700, 2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(•R. L. Measures) wrote:
>> You know that nobody in his right mind would believe you, don't you.
>• Good point Duke. However, Christianity is somewhat based on a
>sacrifice-based pagan Sun-God religion named Mithraism
NO, it wasn't. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia and the world
authority
on mithra, mithra borrowed from Christianity.
Examples:
>December 25, the Winter solstice was changed to the Christian God's
>birthday from Mithra's birthday.
Actually it wasn't. Christ represents the new light coming into the world
from
the darkness of sin. The solstice happens to represent the new
lengthening
daylight, and the proper selection of a birthday for the new Light in the
World
- Jesus.
> Even though Saturday was the Jewish
>sabbath - and Jesus was Jewish, Christianity adopted the Sun God Mithra's
>Sabbath of Sunday.
Absolutely not. God worked on 6 days and rested on the 7th. The new
Christians
attended temple then celebrated the Eucharist. Eventually the Jews made
the
sabbath services too long, so the Christians eventually abandoned the
temple and
wor****pped the Eucharist on the next day, which btw is the 1st day of the
week.
> Additionally, Mithra had multiple personalities as did
>the Christian God - while the Jewish supreme being thankfully had only
one
>personality.
From the CE:
Mithraism was emphatically a soldier religion: Mithra, its hero, was
especially
a divinity of fidelity, manliness, and bravery; Mithra was an abstraction,
a
personification not even of the sun but of the diffused daylight; his
incarnation, if such it may be called, was supposed to have happened
before the
creation of the human race.
Mithraism had a Eucharist, but the idea of a sacred banquet is as old as
the
human race and existed at all ages and amongst all peoples. Mithra saved
the
world by sacrificing a bull; Christ by sacrificing Himself. It is hardly
possible to conceive a more radical difference than that between Mithra
taurochtonos and Christ crucified. Christ was born of a Virgin; there is
nothing
to prove that the same was believed of Mithra born from the rock. Christ
was
born in a cave; and Mithraists wor****pped in a cave, but Mithra was born
under a
tree near a river.
Heeheeheeheehee.
duke, American-American
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