On Mar 28, 2008, at 10:52 AM, Wolfe, Stephen S Civ USAF AMC 6 MDSS/
SGSI wrote:
>> Surely if you measure by their life, both the Buddha and Confucius
>> both have the numbers to dwarf Jesus.
>
> Are you sure?
It isn't even close. The sheer populations of the respective areas
are just about impossible to overcome, and add to that the fact that
both lived 500 years before Jesus...
The point was, of course, that Stephen's appeal to sheer numbers as
"proof" is just plain silly.
What's more likely in support of the man/myth question is the fact
that the Jesus story so closely parallels the story of Mithra, a pagan
god who predates Jesus, and whose followers were the primary
"competition" to early Christianity. It seems much more likely that
the Jesus story was simply the Mithra story that was co-opted by the
early Christians, in much the same way that they co-opted most pagan
holidays to make them Christian holy days.
-- Ed Leafe
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