I assume you're familiar with the other side of this coin, right? All the pre-Christian myths and traditions that bear a "striking similarity" to the Jesus story (but came first).
Yes, Mithras, Krishna, Tammuz, etc. The parallels are either tenuous or the mythology is ahistorical.
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No more ahistorical than Jesus mythology.
We have no evidence Christians made it into Norse Territory until hundreds of years after the story of Odin on the tree.
I don't think the mythology of any of those other gods is any more ahistorical than Jesus mythology. Much of Jesus story changed after he was gone also.
Dionysius was born to a god father and mortal mother dismembered and resurrected over 1000 years before Jesus was born.
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We have no evidence Christians made it into Norse Territory until hundreds of years after the story of Odin on the tree.
I don't think the mythology of any of those other gods is any more ahistorical than Jesus mythology. Much of Jesus story changed after he was gone also.
Dionysius was born to a god father and mortal mother dismembered and resurrected over 1000 years before Jesus was born.
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I can just as easily say: christians made sure their version of reality is historical.
