The pre-Christian God Mithras - called the Son of God and the Light of the World - was born on December 25, died, was buried in a rock tomb, and then resurrected in three days.
December 25 is also the birthday or Osiris, Adonis, and Dionysus.
The newborn Krishna was presented with gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
Christianity's weekly holy day was stolen from the pagans.
The vestiges of pagan religion in Christian symbology are undeniable:
Egyptian sun disks became the halos of Catholic saints.
Pictograms of Isis nursing her miraculously conceived son Horus became the blueprint for our modern images of the Virgin Mary nursing Baby Jesus.
Virtually all the elements of the Catholic ritual - the miter, the altar, the doxology, and communion, the act of "God-eating" - were taken directly from earlier pagan mystery religions."
2007-03-12
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