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So apparently the idea of a 'god' dying and coming back to life three days later is a common theme in religion, from Isis, to the sun at xmas, to jesus on good friday.
Anyway, just a thought.
Happy god death and rebirth festival to you all! 
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Munchies_Matt wrote: god death and rebirth
That's Easter you goofball.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Quote: you goofball.
Hey! Show some respect! That should be "Mr. Goofball".
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Forogar wrote: That should be "Mr. Goofball".
How dare you sir!! You cannot assume one's gender. 
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Come now, only a man would call themselves "Munchies...". Women would call themselves "Nibbles...".
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Uh?
I said "jesus on good friday" Isis is christ knows when, the sun, obviously, dies on its shortest day and comes back to life on xmas day.
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Fair enough. I just wanted to yell at somebody I guess. 
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Funny how, of the several religions descended from Judaism, the chrisitians seem to have forgotten the part about "dead is dead".*
* DNA evidence - it may have been an evil twin !
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Yes, it is. Perhaps it is something it picked up from Roman/Greek culture.
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Such as: Dying-and-rising deity - Wikipedia[^] 'Osiris, Tammuz, Adonis and Attis, Dionysus and Jesus Christ'
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Clearly so:
Think Hercules, for example.
Their top deity "putting it to" a mortal and out comes a super-being.
Or maybe that's just a coincidence?
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Dont know, did he die and come back to life?
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Better still - went to the heavens when his "mortal part" died to live with the gods.
More food for thought: The Twelve Labors of Hercules parallels the supposed miracles.
Now - fold into this all of the "pagan" customs that give christianity it's character (eggs, rabbits for fertility in the Spring, yule logs and tree lighting for winter, and of course gift giving for the festival of Janus). What you have here is an awful lot of circumstantial evidence of where and what inspired the whole thing, at least as we know it.
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yeah, in fact I think the only thing left about easter and xmas these days is the old pagan aspect, the christianity has fallen away completely.
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I just stick to the old Saxon/Germanic festivities. Feasting, drinking, bringing greenery into the house, giving gifts. Easy and it fits, it is our culture. 
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Munchies_Matt wrote: the christianity has fallen away completely.
Speak for yourself. 
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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We are still talking about Leslie Nielsen, aren't we?
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well, in terms of winter solstice births ... don't forget Baldur, Amaterasu, Mithra, Saturn, Hephaestus, Quetzalcoat, Srinivasa Ramanujan ...
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
modified 21-Dec-18 15:01pm.
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Thats quite a few isnt it, I guess we all still worship the sun really!
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If you're really interested in the solar aspects of theogony, I'd recommend: [^]
David Wray is a world-class numismatist/scholar who specializes in ancient Mediterranean world symbolism, icons, cultural history. His book: "The Secret Roots of Christianity: Decoding Religious History with Symbols on Ancient Coins" is a masterpiece of scholarship overflowing with information on ancient trade-routes, geo-political struggles. the coming of Rome to world-domination. The book is written for a wider audience than professional scholars; it is NOT a book that promotes any religion, or attacks any religion. No ancient astronauts 
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Did we not grow over the idea of the sun dying?
Merry days, and have a good new year 
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Wow, Jesus = Isis! 
Never made the connection before...
Though, come to think of it, how to make a god?
Take some cool power from previous gods, bolt it on! 
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Super Lloyd wrote: how to make a god?
Take some cool power from previous gods, bolt it on
IOW, very similar to the way you make new humans/cows/dogs/chickens/...
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True dat! 
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Yeah, thats the way to sell a god, dont change the dates, dont change the ceremony, just change the face and the name
(Hence the European xmas, utterly pagan still, as is easter, just named after jesus these days.
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