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It's not just Horus - there's also Mithras, Dionysus, Bacchus, Zarathustra, Hercules, Ra, Krishna, Attis and a host of other "Man-Gods" who were resurrected saviors/prophets/miracle workers that the authors of the Jesus myth borrowed from.
The archetype of the solar man-god, born of a virgin, slain and risen, spans many cultures and many times.
that's what the 1st part of zeitgeist:the movie elucidates.
and they do it well.
and then, after that, the real "fun" begins.
Oh, by this point pretty much anything is a rehash here There are a lot of correlations between several earlier mythologies and Christianity. The Christians are well-known to have scavenged their religious bits from those earlier ones. It was their way of incorporating "heathen" populations more easily into Christianity -- by giving them familiar gods and legends that compared closely to their own.
There is another interpretation . . . all the earlier versions are the "spiritual fossils" in the record of the spiritual template (DNA . . . "God Gene") for our spiritual evolution . . . the " verbal spiritual bones" left by each evolutionary branch or stage. I have studied it extensively and it is quite compelling. We see what we want to see, I guess.
There is another interpretation . . . all the earlier versions are the "spiritual fossils" in the record of the spiritual template (DNA . . . "God Gene") for our spiritual evolution . . . the " verbal spiritual bones" left by each evolutionary branch or stage. I have studied it extensively and it is quite compelling. We see what we want to see, I guess.
There are a lot of resemblences. However, there are a lot of differences to.
I'm not saying they are the exact same story, I don't believe they are, I just think that the disciples exagerated some of the realities of the life of Jesus to further their religion.
There are a lot of resemblences. However, there are a lot of differences to.
I'm not saying they are the exact same story, I don't believe they are, I just think that the disciples exagerated some of the realities of the life of Jesus to further their religion.
Yep. No one is claiming they are exact same stories but rather variations of the same myth and archetype.
It's not just Horus - there's also Mithras, Dionysus, Bacchus, Zarathustra, Hercules, Ra, Krishna, Attis and a host of other "Man-Gods" who were resurrected saviors/prophets/miracle workers that the authors of the Jesus myth borrowed from.
The archetype of the solar man-god, born of a virgin, slain and risen, spans many cultures and many times.
You gotta' love this one. Written by Thomas Jefferson to John Adams...third president of the U S to the second...direct quote from one of Jeffersons's letters:
"the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding"
Yep, this has been gone over in depth here before. Interesting stuff, but the christers will naysay it.
More like anyone with an accurate knowledge of history and Egyptian mythology will naysay it. The Christ/Horus stuff is largely based in a group of occultic and Theosophist writers. It does not correspond well to the actual beliefs ancient Egyptians had of Horus.
You gotta' love this one. Written by Thomas Jefferson to John Adams...third president of the U S to the second...direct quote from one of Jeffersons's letters:
"the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding"
I'm not gay, but I can honestly say, I love that man.
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There are a lot of correlations between several earlier mythologies and Christianity. The Christians are well-known to have scavenged their religious bits from those earlier ones. It was their way of incorporating "heathen" populations more easily into Christianity -- by giving them familiar gods and legends that compared closely to their own.
