Hmmm, seems a bit of a coincidence. After all, how often were all male children slaughtered? Was this a fairly common occurence?
Since there is no historical evidence or any other indication that either event took place, could this be yet one more example of creating (or retro-fitting) the Jesus myth?
There have been arguments made that neither character was even a real person. If this is the case, were the inventors of Christianity plagiarizing?
2007-08-21 06:38:36 · 3 answers · asked by Peter D 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
EDIT: 5,000 years of oral history does not a fact make. If I'm wrong here, I'd love to hear your opinion of fairies, trolls, dragons, werewolves, witches and elves.
Don't you think it's an extreme coincidence that two mythological people both miraculously survived (an undocumented) mass slaughters which were designed to target them specifically? What does that prove? Nothing. What does that suggest? It suggests that the creators of the Jesus myth made this up at the same time as they retro-fit the life of Jesus to conform to prophecy.
2007-08-21 09:30:13 · update #1
MLF wrote: "Oral and written history from secular sources"?
Well, hey, there's iron-clad proof to invalidate the question. Pffft!
2007-08-21 09:02:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
No historical evidence? Creating a myth? Only 5000 years of oral and written history from secular sources confims the fact that Moses and Jesus were indeed real flesh and blood human beings.
So they both escaped the slaughter of male children in separate incidents a thousand years apart? And that 'proves' what?
2007-08-21 06:58:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
It's all a part of the myth of being a 'chosen one'.
2007-08-21 06:49:34 · answer #3 · answered by S K 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋