In article <ufd424p8nemikh43m4t4oarmjhdcm13067@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, duke
<duckgumbo32@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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.
• Chortle. Mithraism was well established in Rome well before the birth
of Jesus of Nazareth in 4B.C.
> Examples:
>
> >December 25, the Winter solstice was changed to the Christian God's
> >birthday from Mithra's birthday.
>
> Actually it wasn't.
• Chortle. Not even God's mom can revise history.
>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
> worshipped 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.
• What sacrifice? - there was no permanent loss.
>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;
• Damn! and I thought it was in a manger.
>and Mithraists worshipped in a cave, but Mithra was born under a
> tree near a river.
• I wrote nothing on this matter.
>
> Heeheeheeheehee.
>
• Nervous laughter?
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R.L. Measures. 805-386-3734, www.somis.org
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