Thanks for the explo, ya Maher loving liberal! . Uh oh, I'm sensing politics!

tcarrier32 wrote: aside from Horus, there were many other religions around that time that had a similar story to Jesus.

Jesus also fits into the Heroic Archetype of ancient myth, which many other powerful figures of ancient religion fit into as well.

Yeah. Many religions had characters whose bio somewhat resembled Jebus. Like how the Norse Odin hung himself from Yggdrazil (the World Tree) for nine days to transcend death and acquire all the knowledge of the world. I believe he also had his side punctured by a spear. That's just one I'm familiar with off the top of my head because when I was younger, I loved reading the Norse legends. Which also had Loki, one of the gods who tended to go on adventures with Thor and others...until after a big falling out, he essentially became the primary evil force of their legends. You know, a fallen deity, kinda like Lucifer.

Throughout history, most religions have had parallels (or near-parallels) with others over a wide variety of themes.

Some of the reasons stories are paralelled is to help convert other cultures to Christianity, "See your religion isn't so different from ours!"

Also, put "Jesus" is quotes all you can look up the nonChristian historian Josephus, and how he mentions him.