Posted: Mar 03, 2010 3:01 am
Tangerine Dream wrote:Jesus and Mithra shared the following characteristics:
· Both were born of virgins
· Both had shepherds adoring them at birth
· Both had twelve followers
· Both had ritual baptisms
· Both had ritual communion and used wafers in their rituals
· Both claimed Sunday to be a Holy Day
· Both believed in the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the dead
· Both performed miracles
· Both were considered mankind's savior
· Both were known as “The Light of the world” AND…GET READY FOR THE BIGGEE……
· Both were born on December 25!
I'm not sure if this post was meant to be taken seriously, especially since Jerome has already debunked all these errors in his thread on Mithras here. And even Wikipedia shows that most of the above is a load of crap.
Why do people keep posting this nonsense?