[Zhavric]

Quote by: phoenix_fire You're making the assumption that he was intentionally fabricating a Christian story.

Straw man. The story was already fabricated. He was just trying to get people to believe it / create different parts of the myth.

I suppose you're still going with the outlandish conspiracy theory that neither Jesus nor the disciples existed, that the dates of all the Gospels and Epistles were wrong, and that Christianity was invented centuries after the events it describes took place.

Are you referring the the thread you utterly failed to make any sort of point in? I love how some of you guys do this. I post a thread debating the existence of Jesus. You're almost completely silent on it... then, months or years later, you pretend like the thread where you got trounced/didn't even show up either didn't happen or that you gave some cogent argument there. The score, PF, is me 1, Jesus 0. The fact is that Jesus didn't exist, but that's a something we can debate elsewhere. What's relevant here is the very obvious fact Justin Martyr is keenly aware of Christianity's resemblance to earlier religions.

Please stay on topic.

Just so everyone else is clear. That's a whole heck of a lot of assumption based on a whole heck of a lot of supposition based on, when it comes down to it, what you would prefer to be true.

Not only are you off-topic, you're projecting the flaws of your own nonsensical unsupported stance as a Christian onto my argument. Knock it off, and get back on topic.

A far simpler and more reasonable conclusion would be that Martyr actually believed the events to be true and was defending his sincere belief.

Okay. Let's run with that for a moment as a hypothetical. It still evidences that Martyr knew about / accepted the fact that the Jesus story mirrored earlier pagan mythology. So, whether you believe in a cosmic jewish zombie or not, we can now both firmly agree that said cosmic jewish zombie closely resembled earlier myths.