"The Christian myth grew by absorbing details from pagan 
cults. The
    birth story is similar to many nativity myths in the pagan 
world. The
    Christ had to have a Virgin for a mother. Like the image of the
    child-god in the cult of Dionysus, he was pictured in swaddling 
clothes
    in a basket manger. He was born in a stable like Horus--the 
stable
    temple of the Virgin Goddess, Isis, Queen of Heaven. Again , like
    Dionysus, he turned water into wine, like Aesculapius, he 
raised men
    from the dead and gave sight to the blind; and like Attis and 
Adonis,
    he is mourned and rejoiced over by women. His resurrection took 
place,
    like that of Mithra, from a rock tomb."

        The man Jesus did not exist. There are however sources that 
speak
    of others seeing him. These were secondhand sources. No direct
    observations were made. At one time or another we have all had 
a vision
    of Deity in our minds. Such is the sight of Jesus, a mental 
image.

        What of the Gospels then? They are passion plays designed 
to be
    read or acted out in front of an audience. Passion plays were a 
common
    feature of pagan religion. Looking at the Gospels themselves 
one finds
    a chopply written, scene by scene, display of the life of the 
God man.
    Only the important aspects of his life are described. The minor 
events
    and influences of the life of Jesus are not recorded, which 
leaves one
    to think that the Gospels are indeed a play.

        "When we turn from the reputed teaching of Jesus to the 
story of
    his career, the presumption is that it has a factual basis is so
    slender as to be negligible. The Church found it so difficult 
to settle
    the date of its alleged founder's birth that the Christian era 
was made
    to begin some years before the year which chronologists latter 
inferred
    on the strength of other documents. The nativity was placed at 
the
    winter solstice, thus coinciding with the birthday of the 
Sun-god. And
    the date for the crucifiction was made to vary from year to 
year to
    conform to the astronomical principle which fixed the Jewish 
Passover.
    [The Passover is moon based, an already familiar pagan method of
    cyclic, monthly dating.] In between the birth and death of 
Jesus, there
    is an almost total absence of information except about the 
brief period
    of his ministry. Of his life between the ages of twelve and 
thirty we
    know nothing. There are not even any myths. It is impossible to
    establish with any accuracy the duration of the ministry from the
    Gospels. According to the tradition it lasted one year, which 
suggests
    that it was either based on the formula 'the acceptable year of 
the
    Lord', or on the myth of the Sun-god." _Pagan_Christs_ by J.M.
    Robertson, page 68

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