dartagnan wrote:Correlation doesn't equal causation and the Christ mythers have a tendency to oversimplify and exagerrate the extent of these "parallels."
Kevin..if there were pagan myths with god/men who were born of a virgin, who were redeemers, who died for everyone's sins, who died and could be resurrected, these are strong parallels. If the intended audience of the gospel writers were pagans, if the gospel writers themselves grew up pagans and exposed to these themes in their myths, is it any wonder they incorporated them to appeal to their intended pagan audience? Few people I'm sure would think any particular myth is exactly like the Jesus story, few people would think all the themes must have been present in Jesus story must have been previously present in other myth stories, but I believe it is acknowledged that some of the significant pagan themes common in Jesus's time and when the gospel writers wrote were known to be in other pagan myths.
[/quote]That's what's been shown beyond a doubt and is epitomized with pseudo-scholarly presentations like Zeitgeist and now it appears Religulous. You're trying to lure me into a debate when I already told you I've been there, done that. In fact, I think you were involved in it. Check the archives here. Right now I have more important matters to attend to.
No I wasn't involved in it. I read one post in that thread, found it funny and wrote "lol" that's it, I didn't read the thread on Zeigeist. I take your word for it, it should be ignored.
Religulous is not a pseudo-scholarly presentation. I'm not trying to get you into a debate, I just want you to be honest and answer a few of my questions regarding commonality between pagan myths and Jesus story. You obviously don't want to answer the questions so I assume that is likely because many of the pagan myth did have common significant themes to the Jesus story and you don't want to acknowledge that.