The Pagan origins of the Christian Myth

[Before] Dionysis turned water to wine.
[After] Jesus turned water into wine.

[Before] Vespatian healed a blind man.
[After] Jesus healed a blind man.

[Before] The good go to the Elysian Fields, the bad to Hades.
[After] The good go to Heaven, the bad to Hell.

[Before] Romulus was the son of God, born of a virgin.{There are at least 4 others like this}
[After] Jesus was the son of God, born of a virgin.

[Before] Every group (Egyptians, Minoans, Spartans, Arians, etc) gets their holy laws from "god."
[After] Christians get their holy laws from "god."

[Before] The Roman god Liber had his flesh eaten by his followers.
[After] Jesus had his flesh eaten by his followers.

[Before] Glycon was the son of the God Apollo, who:
... came to Earth through a miraculous birth,
... was the Earthly manifestation of divinity,
... came to earth in fulfillment of divine prophecy,
... gave his chief believer the power of prophecy,
... gave believers the power to speak in tongues,
... performed miracles,
... healed the sick,
... raised the dead.
[After] Same as above except cross out Glycon/Apollo and replace with Jesus/God.



You see....Christians are not special, they follow the same myths that have been around for thousands of years. I get tired of hearing this 'god is special/jesus is our savior/jesus loves you/the bible is the word of god/REPENT!' crap over and over again. Religion is just a pair of mental shackles to keep people in their place, to keep them sedated. Study after study has shown that religion and intelligence are correlated (with an increase in intelligence = decrease in religion). [Keep in mind that IQ is only one measure of intelligence, but similar studies have seen the same thing in GPA, ACE, SAT, college education, income, and status in their field of work.]

The greatest threat to religion is reason.