All religion is borrowed. The masses are deceived. There is safety in numbers. The religious clan transcends nations. It is a mechanism to allow you to deny your own mortality.
All religion has its roots in 3 systems:
Animism. Provides the concept of the soul.
Shamanism. Provides the power of miraculous healing.
Paganism. Provides the notion of god(s).
So how does it transmute from one belief system to another?
The use of subtle name changes is a handy tool:
For example,
*Brahma becomes Abraham by moving the trailing 'a' to the front.
*Al-azar-us (the man raised from the dead by the Egyptian Horus) becomes Lazarus (the man raised from the dead by Jesus), with the leading 'a' truncated.
* Chrishna (the Hindu incarnated saviour, and second in the trinity) becomes the Christ of the Christians (also second in the trinity) with the last syllable changed. The life of Christ parodies the life of Chrishna, whose legend was brought west by the Therapeuts and Essenes.
* Venus's pigeon (of Roman paganism) becomes the dove of the Holy Ghost.
* Pagan worship, which included the use of priests, altars, solemn festivals, bells, candles, cushions, holy water and wine, black and white vestments etc. was adopted by the early church.
* Pagan temples were turned into churches.
* The Christian Creed is virtually identical to the Pagan Creed.
If there is any doubt about this, then look no further than St. Augustine, the great pillar of the church:
This was further backed up by Eusebius:For the thing itself which is now called the Christian religion, really was known to the ancients, nor was wanting at any time from the beginning of the human race, until the time when Christ came into the flesh whence the true religion, which had previously existed began to be called Christian
Also Origen:That which is called the Christian religion is neither new nor strange
And Thomas Paine:The Christian religion contained nothing but what Christians held in common with heathens: nothing what was new or truly great
That's the real clue, because all gods are based upon different powers of the sun.The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man, whom they call Christ, in the place of the sun and pay him the same adoration which was originally paid to the sun
So Christ was worshipped as the Man in Aquarius, as the fish in Aquarius, as the lamb in Aries, as the lion of Judah in Leo, as the morbid centaur in Sagittarius.
It is no coincidence that his birthday is celebrated just after the winter solstice (to allow for the rebirth of the moon also). It is no coincidence that the birthday of John the Baptist is celebrated at the summer solstice on 24/25th June ('He increases, but I must decrease' says the Baptist of Jesus in John's gospel). And it is no coincidence that Lady Day (the feast of the blessed virgin) is celebrated at the vernal equinox on 25th March, as 9 months later the baby Jesus (the sun) is reborn. The pagan festival of Eastre at the vernal equinox is borrowed and disguised to become Easter, by declaring it to be on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. Such a disguise is this floating date. Surely someone must have recorded the day of crucifixion. But there again no one ever knew Jesus enough to have written anything about him. No first hand account. No historical record, even by Philo or Josephus. No archeological evidence. Instead the early Christians were charged as sun-worshippers. They prayed to the east. They held their sacred day on Sun-day.
Jesus Christ is a composite of ancient gods. Most notably he is Chrishna, but he is also Mithra, Tammuz, Horus, Apollo, Appolonius of Tyana, Adonis of the Phoenicians, and many others.
Thank you to:
Reverend Robert Taylor, theist turned atheist, and jailed for blasphemy (Devil's Pulpit, Syntagma, Diegesis)
Joseph McCabe, also theist turned atheist.
Godfrey Higgins (Anacalypsis).
Gerald Massey (Natural Genesis).
Thomas Doane (Bible Myths).
and many others.