HO! HO! HO! Merry Mithramas!

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
It appears we shall all have to, at some point in this discussion. Right now, though, I'm trying to achieve a better understanding of Mithras.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10402a.htm

http://www.mithraism.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi

Originally posted by lucifershammer
No problems. It'll be fun to watch an atheist Mutual Admiration Society at work.

Make no mistake, Hammy...much more fun than a thread full of slobbering sycophants posting irrelevant nonsense ALL IN CAPS, or obvious alcoholics with short-dick complexes alternatively posting racial epithets and thanking Jesus for curing him of his porn addiction. Guess which side of the floor you're on, big fella.

This is an excellent link for anyone sincerely interested in the parallels between Mithras & Jesus-the-Christ:

http://www.innvista.com/culture/religion/deities/mithra.htm

Is this completely irrelevant to this discussion?

"These similarities frightened the early Christian leaders - that almost 500 years before arrival of Christ all of the Christian mysteries were already known. To combat this, Christian witters said that the Devil knew of the coming of Christ in advance and had imitated them before they existed in order to denigrate them. As Christianity gained strength and became the formal religion of the Roman Empire, the 'Cult of Mithras' was one of the first pagan cults to come under attack in the fifth century; Temples of Mithras, like most other pagan Temples, were destroyed and Churches build on them."

http://www.taivaansusi.net/historia/mithraism.html

Originally posted by stocken
Is this completely irrelevant to this discussion?

It does look like this battle has been fought before.

There once was a guy named Celsus...

http://www.bluffton.edu/~humanities/1/celsus.htm
http://members.aol.com/PS418/celsus.html

Originally posted by David C
Make no mistake, Hammy...much more fun than a thread full of slobbering sycophants posting irrelevant nonsense ALL IN CAPS, or obvious alcoholics with short-dick complexes alternatively posting racial epithets and thanking Jesus for curing him of his porn addiction. Guess which side of the floor you're on, big fella.

Man, I must have been in a bad mood. 😳

Originally posted by no1marauder
Please cite ANY insults I've used in this thread, Ivanhoe.

you insult anybody when you compare them to Ivanhoe. LOL

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
It does look like this battle has been fought before.

There once was a guy named Celsus...

http://www.bluffton.edu/~humanities/1/celsus.htm
http://members.aol.com/PS418/celsus.html

What's the rest of the limerick?