Almost all of the Christ story--virgin birth, ressurection after three days, son of god/is god, communion, etc--is found in other religions, be it the story of Krishna, Horus, Osiris, Dionysious, Mithra, etc. Doesn't it make sense that Christianity evolved from these earlier traditions? You could say that the devil planted those stories ahead of time to fake prohpecy (which was the early church explanation). But you have to believe that inspite of evidence, not because of it. Or that the will of god is written on the heart of men, so it is natural to presume that the christ story will pop up in different cultures using different wording. But how do you explain the religions of the Incas and Aztecs which are based on animism? Don't the atheists have the best and simplest explanation by looking at religion comparatively and seeing how they all relate to one another and evolve from each other?
2007-06-01
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