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Comparitive Religions

Tzetze · 2007-09-13 20:39:56

I've been looking into the similarities between earlier religions/gods and christianity/Jesus. Horus and Mithra were already mentioned, so I looked at Attis and came across a copy of The Golden Bough online. Wiki goes on to list much modern literature and film that makes reference to this book, including Yeats, Jim…

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#32 18-09-2007 12:18AM

Scofflaw

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Talliesin wrote:

Come again? It's some Protestants (Fundamentalists) and some atheists (those who argue along literal lines) that don't treat the story as mythology but as a literal history (disagreeing as to whether it's a true literal history or an untrue one) and without mythological value (a myth being a story which "happens" now as well as happening in the past).

Ah, no - not all Protestants are Creationists, but all Protestants are persuaded that the Catholic Church is laden with mythological bits and pieces from pagan religions. Atheists, of course, tend to see the whole thing as mythological.

The Protestants are therefore concerned to identify those festivals and practices of the Catholic Church which are borrowings from pagan religions (to eliminate them), whereas the atheists are interested in identifying those elements both in the festivals/practice and in Scripture. The more educated and intelligent Protestants, like PDN, might even go so far as to admit that possibly certain elements of the Apostolic record are a little fanciful (such as the genealogies), while holding the position that the primary record is intended to be both factual and historical.

cordially,
Scofflaw

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