But you brought up the whole godman thing and the "Jesus didn't exist" thing.AMBOMB said:That was in response to your statement that there were differences between Mithraism and Christianity!
But you brought up the whole godman thing and the "Jesus didn't exist" thing.AMBOMB said:That was in response to your statement that there were differences between Mithraism and Christianity!
First of all, I brought up the godman thing in response to your statement that there were differences between Mithraism and Christianity. Second of all, I haven't said Jesus didn't exist on this thread.DominusNovus said:But you brought up the whole godman thing and the "Jesus didn't exist" thing.
AMBOMB said:To be honest, Leo, I find the person/people who made that website more credible than I find you.
You alluded it.AMBOMB said:First of all, I brought up the godman thing in response to your statement that there were differences between Mithraism and Christianity. Second of all, I haven't said Jesus didn't exist on this thread.
Tone aside, the only way you could make that statement is if you thought Jesus didn't exist. Otherwise, 'literalist christianity' would have been there all along.AMBOMB said:Literalist Christianity (practiced by people who think Jesus actually existed) got started later.
This isn't an argument you should've started with me in the first place because I didn't start the pagan godman argument on this thread. Leo did, by contradicting my assertion that Mithras was a pagan godman. So, if anything, you should've been bitching at him, not me.DominusNovus said:You alluded it.
Tone aside, the only way you could make that statement is if you thought Jesus didn't exist. Otherwise, 'literalist christianity' would have been there all along.
But I'm done arguing this here. Absolutely done. If you want to keep on it, go to the Chat forum. I'd prefer to keep this thread as much on topic as possible. This thread has been about the timeline inspired by this same thread, for nearly a year now. If you want to make your own, then make your own. But I'm not going to go into the different dark ages map thread and start going on about how the modern koran developed later than muslims hold it to have developed, or something like that (besides the fact that Islam in that timeline is a completely different religion). They've already pursued the idea, which is a rarity. We've all got great ideas, but a thread where someone actually makes a timeline is rare, and those based on someone else's map/question/whatever are rarer still.
tom said:In originally researching this, I came across a book that indicates we may have drastically underestimated the number of Mithraists in the Empire, based on number and size of Mithraea (sp?). The "churches" of this religion were not, apparently, meant to hold the entire congregation at once. Mithras was quite popular with the Roman military, who did not have their days off on the same day (for reasons Israel learned on Yom Kippur 1973). Thus, the "apparent" number of adherants should be multiplied by seven. This still does not make them greater in number than Christians in early 4th Century, but it comes close.