I'm a Christian, and this doesn't bother me all that much since as a mystic, I see the basic truth that is most complete in Christianity, but is the root of all religions.
However, for the traditional Christians out there, does it bother you that...
- December 25 is also the birthday of Sol Invictus and Mithra amongst others, bread and wine a common theme in Mithraism
- Osiris-Dionysus is God made flesh, the savior and "Son of God", born in a cave of a virgin (manger anyone?), not to mention turned water into wine at a marriage ceremony (Cana anyone?
- Those statues of Horus nursing from Isis breast suspiciously mirror those pictures of Mary with baby Jesus
Those are just off the top of my head, I know there are more.
Anyone care to recognize the borrowing from older religions?
2007-07-21 12:11:54 · 19 answers · asked by Christine S 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
upallnite, that's the WHOLE POINT.
I KNOW Jesus wasn't born on December 25, that's day that's just borrowed from pagan religions as His birthday.
2007-07-21 12:32:46 · update #1
Religion is pretty much a superstition. It doesn't matter which one or how old. The really scary ones like Christianity, Islam, and Judaism show the depths of depravity that the human imagination can repress people and subject the entire world in fudamentalist misery.
2007-07-21 12:16:08 · answer #1 · answered by Don W 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
My friend, you have a valid question on the trinity and christmas. But I would strongly recommend that you read the Bible, not what popular Christianity is saying. True Christianity worships the Father Who is the one true God, and worships Jesus, because He is the Son of God. Nobody else. Read the Bible, don't take my word for it. Write me, if you like. The truths of the virgin birth and the Son of God both go way, way back. And that is why Satan has tried very early on to counterfeit and pre-empt these realities.
2016-05-19 08:27:23 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's natural that as different cultures interact, they share religious ideas. Christianity does have some original ideas, but many of their practices and beliefs are borrowed from pagan religions.
2007-07-21 12:19:06 · answer #3 · answered by Graciela, RIRS 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
excuse me but God was not born as man. christ is the son of God , born of man. besides the virgin mary didn't become a virgin until the middle ages. it would be nice if you took some time to get your religion straight. all contemporary religions have a bit of paganism imbedded in them, thats how pagans were converted. the maya accepted christianity because of the blood scarifice christ made for the people. just like the blood scarifice the mayan kings did for their people
2007-07-21 12:25:14 · answer #4 · answered by oldguy 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the Life (John 14:6). Don't be misled by these pagan religions, which try to decieve people. Some theolgians think that the reason lucifer rebelled from God, was because God told him that God the Son would become man and be born of a Virgin for man's salvation. Don't be decieved, for satan was a liar from the beginning and is out to decieve the whole world! Trust in Christ! God bless.
2007-07-21 12:17:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
All religions were passed down by word of mouth for centuries before being written down.No it doesn't bother me at all because it's all the same god ,even if they don't realize it.It's the same story different interpretations .
2007-07-21 12:22:58 · answer #6 · answered by wandadecatur 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
December 25 is not when Jesus was born.
Your argument falls apart from the very start.
2007-07-21 12:15:34 · answer #7 · answered by upallnite 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
The entire old testament is a pagan document. Its the story of the Sumerian gods. It was originaly Mesopotamian, then Sumerian, Egyptian, Jewish then christian. It still retains one of the many egyptian traits of saying the name of the chief egyptian deity at the end of prayers, AMEN. Amen AKA Amun-Ra, Ra and Marduk.
2007-07-21 12:20:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
The similarities are an artifact of the same core information being taught down through history but within the context of differing cultures and languages.
2007-07-21 12:16:52 · answer #9 · answered by No 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
As far as the birth date, maybe Jesus was born then. As far as other things, I consider Adam and Eve to have been the first "religious" people, so other faiths would have borrowed from them and their descendants.
2007-07-21 12:18:57 · answer #10 · answered by RB 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋