After reading about an ancient group called the Cult of Mithras, it has become apparent that many/most aspects of christianity have been plagiarized from their ancient rival. The similarities between the two are two frequent and to close to be coincidence.

my original source which made me do more research was Nick Harding's book "Secret Societies".

though you can find some quick references at the link below, though it doesn't list them all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraism#Similarities_to_Christianity

It's pretty evident to anyone who has read up on it and not a Christian that Christianity has plagiarized from quite a few sources.

quote:Originally posted by Raw_Power:

It's pretty evident to anyone who has read up on it and not a Christian that Christianity has plagiarized from quite a few sources.

QFFT!

Look around, basically every religious text uses the same myths.

I've described christians as "neo-mithrians" here often enough.

As Raw Power said , once you get deeper into the subject you find that almost nothing that modern evangelical christians believe has its origin in scripture and was absorbed,burrowed or stolen from another source (there is a 'proper' theologian's word for this process which I won't bore you with).

quote:Originally posted by jackketch:

I've described christians as "neo-mithrians" here often enough.

As Raw Power said , once you get deeper into the subject you find that almost nothing that modern evangelical christians believe has its origin in scripture and was absorbed,burrowed or stolen from another source (there is a 'proper' theologian's word for this process which I won't bore you with).

Please do bore us with it. I'm interested.

quote:Originally posted by Kykeon:



Please do bore us with it. I'm interested.

quote:Religious syncretism

Religious syncretism is the blending of two or more religious belief systems into a new system, or the incorporation into a religious (tradition of beliefs from unrelated traditions. This can occur for many reasons, and the latter is quite common in areas where multiple religious traditions exist in close proximity and are active in the culture.

Religions may have syncretic elements to their beliefs or history, but applying the label is often unwelcome by adherents of so-labeled systems, especially those who belong to so-called "revealed" religious systems, such as the Abrahamic religions, or any system that is exclusivist in its approach. Syncretism is sometimes seen by such adherents as being a betrayal of a pure truth. By this reasoning, adding an incompatible belief corrupts the original religion, rendering it no longer true. Indeed, syncretism is sometimes used as an epithet, a charge implying that those who are seeking to incorporate a new view, belief, or practice into a religious system are, in fact, distorting it. Non-exclusivist systems of belief, on the other hand, may feel quite free to incorporate other traditions into their own.

In modern secular society, religions are sometimes created syncretically as a mechanism to reduce inter-religious tension and enmity, often with the effect of offending the original religions in question. Such religions, however, do maintain some appeal to a less exclusivist audience. Some of these are described in individual sections below.

Which I pulled off Dictionary.com

That wasn't boring...I found it interesting. I never knew there was a word for that before; I had always used 'assimilation'.

quote:Originally posted by Hexadecimal:

That wasn't boring...I found it interesting. I never knew there was a word for that before; I had always used 'assimilation'.

You do? Me, I just say 'nicked' or 'alf inched' :P

I would like to hear more about this, what connections are there? i will do my own reaserach but if someone here knows about these connections pls post

Mithras was born a virgin birth on December 25th. It was the the chief religion of the roman army. The baptism was really cool. They would lead a bull up onto a platform and slit it's throat showering the followers in blood.