You know, it's a good thing (for christianity) that you couldn't trademark things back then. If so, christianity would have some legal problems.

"Nothing in Christianity is original. The pre-Christian God Mithras - called the Son of God and the Light of the World - was born on December 25, died was buried in a rock tomb, and then resurrected in three days. By the way, December 25 is also the birthday or Osiris, Adonis, and Dionysus. The newborn Krishna was presented with gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Even Christianity's weekly holy day was stolen from the pagans."

My question is this. Why does christianity almost copy exactly so many key principles from religions directly before it?

Now, you never hear about this cause most christians know nothing about their religions' origins, but from what I've heard the church response (that they almost never have to give) is this:

Satan knew in advance that Jesus was going to come to Earth, so he went back before Jesus and made up all these religions that exactly mimic what was going to happen with Jesus, just to discredit christianity.

By the way, that is their answer to this day.

I've come to the point where I no longer bother arguing, because I've realised religion is very, very stupid, and the people who follow it are either in denial or very, very stupid.

quote:Originally posted by Adrenochrome:

I've come to the point where I no longer bother arguing, because I've realised religion is very, very stupid, and the people who follow it are either in denial or very, very stupid.

It's easy to think people who follow religion are stupid if you talk to silly christians. Buddhists would probably be fun to talk to, except buddhism isn't really a religon but a philosophy, correct?

umm....Christianity came first?

quote:Originally posted by Dragonsthrone:

umm....Christianity came first?

quote:The people who follow [religion] are either in denial or very, very stupid.

[This message has been edited by Elephantitis Man (edited 05-04-2006).]

God created the world...(don't start arguing evolution there are plenty of other threads for that) so there weren't any other religions before Christianity...

quote:Originally posted by Dragonsthrone:

God created the world...(don't start arguing evolution there are plenty of other threads for that) so there weren't any other religions before Christianity...

Plenty of threads where you lost.

Don't answer the question by assuming you are right.

Duh.

Answer the question I asked.

Sheeeeeeesh.

There are no religions and probably no cultures that don't have any holy days, or days of celebration or whatever. The Christians could have started up by uprooting the calendar, ripping all of the traditional holy days up and tossing them out the window, but people held their holy days very dear to their heart back then. So Christians simply overlayed their religion on to the traditional ones, instead of declaring "Jesus was born in March, now celebrate March whatever as a holy day", they figured people would get uptight about that, so they said, "You know, dude, Jesus Christ was also born on December 25. Fucking coincidence, no?" There had to be small compromises along the way. And people accepted that.

Although I seriously doubt that they imitated Buddha, but it's possible. What's even more unlikely is Dan Brown's claims that Christians copied the communion ritual and the raising from the dead of Christ from the Aztecs. Dan Brown's retarded.