http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcpa5.htm
The above link highlights the overwhelming similarities between Horus and Jesus. It would not be a challenge to find a dozen articles refuting many of the commonalities; nonetheless a compelling case is made for Jesus being a mythical representation of the sun as opposed to an historical individual. Granted the sun spawned and sustains our very existence and hence adulation is wholly understandable; however, the notion of billions failing to clue into the allegorical nature of the Gospel while at the same time forking over their hard earned money to a tax exempt institution is downright disturbing.
The above link is full of mistakes, lies and inaccuracies. For example:
Horus was not born of a virgin
The Bible does not say that Jesus was born on December 25th
Horus did not have 12 disciples
The Bible does not say that Jesus was visited by "three wise men". The Bible does not give a number.
If you are going to compare Jesus to Horus, first learn the facts about both Jesus and Horus. For more information:
Comparing Osiris, Horus, and Jesus
http://tektonics.org/copycat/osy.htmlConfronting the Copycat Thesis
http://www.tektonics.org/copycat/copycathub.htmlEnding the Myth of Horus
http://stupidevilbastard.com/index/seb/comments/ending_the_myth_of_horus/Jesus is a historical figure, and here is the historical evidence:
Josephus Jewish Antiquities (c.93 C.E.)
(later interpolations in brackets)
"Now, there was about this time Jesus, a wise man [if it be lawful to call him a man], for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews, and many of the Gentiles. [He was the Messiah.] And when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him [for he appeared to them alive again at the third day; as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him]. And the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this date.1
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Pliny the Younger Letter to Trajan (c.111-117 C.E.)
"...they maintained that their fault or error amounted to nothing more than this: they were in the habit of meeting on a certain fixed day before sunrise and reciting an antiphonal hymn to Christ as God, and binding themselves with an oath not to commit any crime, but to abstain from all acts of theft, robbery and adultery, from breaches of faith, from repudiating a trust when called upon to honour it."2
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Tacitus Roman Annals (c.115-117 C.E.)
"They got their name from Christ, who was executed by sentence of the procurator Pontius Pilate in the reign of Tiberius. That checked the pernicious superstition for a short time, but it broke out afresh--not only in Judea, where the plague first arose, but in Rome itself, where all the horrible and shameful things in the world collect and find a home."3
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Sanhedrin 43a (200-500 C.E.)
"On the eve of the Passover Yeshu4 was hanged. For forty days before the execution took place, a herald went forth and cried, 'He is going forth to be stoned because he has practiced sorcery and enticed Israel to apostacy. Any one who can say anything in his favour, let him come forward and plead on his behalf. But since nothing was brought forward in his favour he was hanged on the eve of Passover!"5
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Josephus Jewish Antiquities (Arabic summary)
"At this time there was a wise man who was called Jesus. And his conduct was good, and he was known to be virtuous. And many people from among the Jews and the other nations became his disciples. Pilate condemned him to be crucified and to die. And those who had become his disciples did not abandon his discipleship. They reported that he had appeared to themafter his crucifixion and that he was alive; accordingly, he was perhaps the Messiah concerning whom the prophets have recounted wonders." 6
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Endnotes
1. Antiquities xviii. 33 (early second century) from F.F. Bruce, Jesus and Christian Origins Outside the New Testament (Grand 2. Rapids: Eerdmans, 1974), 37.
3. Pliny, Epistles x.96, from Bruce, p.26.
4. Tacitus, Annals xv, 44, from Bruce, p. 22.
5. Talmudic designation of Jesus.
"Sanhedrin," vol 3 of Nezikin, Babylonian Talmud, edited by Isidore Epstein, reprint (London: Soncino, 1938), 281.
6. Arabic summary, presumably of Antiquities 18.63. From Agapios' Kitab al-'Unwan ("Book of the Title," 10th c.).
The translation belongs to Shlomo Pines. See also James H. Charlesworth, Jesus Within Judaism.
