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Looks like Jesus is not one of a kind.
Let’s say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100,000 years, maybe more. Francis Collins says maybe 100,000. Richard Dawkins thinks maybe a quarter-of-a-million. I’ll take 100,000. In order to be a Christian, you have to believe that for 98,000 years, our species suffered and died, most of its children dying in childbirth, most other people having a life expectancy of about 25 years, dying of their teeth. Famine, struggle, bitterness, war, suffering, misery, all of that for 98,000 years. Heaven watches this with complete indifference. And then 2000 years ago, thinks “That’s enough of that. It’s time to intervene,” and the best way to do this would be by condemning someone to a human sacrifice somewhere in the less literate parts of the Middle East. Don’t let us appeal to the Chinese, for example, where people can read and study evidence and have a civilization. Let’s go to the desert and have another revelation there. This is nonsense. It can’t be believed by a thinking person.
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Parallels between Horus and Jesus mythologies
The Horus deity was worshiped for thousands of years in Egypt before the tale of Jesus arose and created Christianity.
Immaculate conception, Only begotten son of god, foster father of royal descent, announced by an angel to the mother, shepherds witnessed the birth, visited by three, death threat during infancy, no story of ages 12-30, baptized at 30, baptized in river, baptizer later beheaded.
