Why doe's no one believe in Mithra's?

Question

For those of you who don't know mithras was a god from the Roman religion of mithraism which was common around 1st and 2nd centenaries BC. mithras was a the saviour sent to earth to live life as a mortal who died to allow sinners to have eternal life but came back to life the following Sunday. He was born from a virgin in a manger or cave on 25th December which was attended by shepherds. To celebrate his birthday the mithrasians give each other gifts, they also symbolically consume his flesh and blood. Just before he died he shard a last meal with his 12 deciles. mithras being a sun god was worshiped on Sundays and so often depicted with a halo behind his head. The leader of mithraism was known as the papa and had his HQ on Vatican hill in Rome He was the son of the god Zoroastinarianism (I know bad spelling) and If people did not bath in bulls blood would he still be woreshiped

Okay give me a explainitive answer why no one woreships mithras

and stop it with this fake god stuff

I do not want your opinion I want a answer

bballchica14 There are people who believe in the roman gods it is called Religio Romano

Also the reason I am describing jesus is because there stories are almost Identical

Answer 1

because it's bull. look it up and it has nothing to do with jesus

Answer 2

You are confused. The god is named Mithra. The religion is an off-shoot of Zoroastrianism.

The story of Mithra's birth, many centuries before Jesus, closely parallels that of Jesus. There was a star that astrologers from Babylon followed; shepherds were watching when he was born. Difference is that where Jesus was conceived without sperm, and was born of a virgin, Mithra was born from a rock. Either way, a couple of pretty good tricks never repeated so far as I have heard.

The religion never spread of took hold of a nation because only men were admitted, and we all know that it is mothers who carry the infection of religious indoctrination.

Answer 3

This was the reason that Christianity was adopted by the Romans. The god Mithra-is was so close to the concept of Jesus the Romans considered that they were one the same.The reference to blood is also directly linked to Christs death, Jesus often being likened to a lamb. You missed out about Mithra-is raising the dead, turning water into wine, and working miracles. Bit too coincidental really is it not.

Answer 4

Mithra is still worshiped by Roman reconstructionists. Christians don't WANT to know about Mithra, Horus or any deity whose story closely relates to the Christ myth. Or other flood myths, or creation myths. It's odd - they scoff and dismiss other creation, flood, creator and savior god stories as myths and ridiculous but expect others to believe the stories in the Bible because the Bible says the stories are true. Pretzel logic! Other myths say they are correct as well and those deities are/were just as real to their followers.

Added: Skj - gotta welcome that Christian love you're sending out there. And people wonder why so many are LEAVING Christianity.

And others who say the Roman gods aren't worshiped and were false - they are still worshiped (along with Celtic, Greek, Slavic, Egyptian......) Besides, Mithra was a Persian deity that was very favored by the Romans - they welcomed all religions (except those that demanded that there were no other deities than their own desert god).

Answer 5

If anything Jesus is the fake god, since he's just a later absorbtion of all past savior gods into one. Mithras, Horus, Attis, Dionysos, etc...

You could also say the same for Yahweh, he's merily a later version of El which absorbed the attributes of all the deities, the supreme creator of west semitic lands.

Answer 6

WOW that was retarded.

Mithras didn't die- and in the stories that he did he is resurrected somewhat quickly. in the stories he died it was from fighting a bull, not as a sacrifice.

he wasn't born-he came from a rock

the flesh and blood thing is ambiguous- it's been argued that they took that from Christianity.
either that or you're referring to Listernisa (sp?) which isn't a flesh and blood feast, more of a ritualized block party

no he was not the son of god in Zoroastorianism, since 1- Zoroastorianism is named after the prophet Zoroaster, and 2. the persian mithras of zoroastorianism isn't connected with the Roman one (persian mithras was a deal enforcer)

edit- Mithras was sometimes mentioned as a son of Ahura Mazda, the supreme God of Zoroastorianism, not THE son, but a son


in other words- false premise

Answer 7

Part of what you say is true. Mithras was worshipped by Roman soldiers 1-2 BCE. The rest is garbage written by gnostics in the 4th century. IT is really easy to do that after the fact. If you dig deeper into the archeology, you will find the true answer.

Answer 8

Zorastrianism is older than Christianity, and isn't it funny how almost exact the stories are? Early christians/ Catholics kinda took this over, didn't they? Or maybe God didn't think people had his message right, so he tried again? Who knows. I am christian, but also a realist. Sounds to me like God has tried to get through to us more than once. Email me more about mithras, I only know some. Thanks.

Answer 9

That is like asking why doesn't anyone believe in ANY of the other roman gods. And you are pretty much describing Jesus. Why would we believe in a fake god??

Answer 10

Because, like every other icon of it's era, Mithras was subsumed into the diabolical force of consumption that became conventional christianity. A better question would be,
"Do you Christians know that you are all worshippers of Bene Elohim, Zeus, Eostre, Odin, Mithras, Danach and others?"

Answer 11

Because the Church did a really good job at brainwashing everyone into believing his name changed to Jesus and that Christianity is now the only true religion.
I despise Christianity for hijacking paganism and passing it off as their own.