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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Greg or e who wrote (40151)	12/3/2001 4:00:28 PM
From: angelachase	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

"Perhaps if one of the followers suffered a brutal execution and then rose from the dead, that might be a clue?" ***************** I am not sure the brutality of the execution would make the point. But the resurrection idea seems to have garnered a lot of followers for many many gods. It is a common theme in religious mythology. Osiris, for instance, was cut up into 14 pieces by Set, but Isis did resurrect him. No wonder he was the head of such a great religion. askwhy.co.uk "...There are several common features to their deaths of Saviours. They lay in the tomb just three days. The are resurrected from the dead. Their resurrection is about the time of the vernal equinox. The twenty-fifth of March is the date assigned by Christians for the resurrection of Christ, though some Christians disagree. They all agree, however, that Christ rose from the dead three days after the entombment. Bishop Theophilus of Cesarea taught that, since the birth of Christ was celebrated on the twenty-fifth of December, his resurrection should be celebrated on the twenty-fifth of March, on whatever day of the week it may fall, the Lord having risen again on that day. Elsewhere we find that all the ancient Christians thought that Christ was crucified on the twenty-third of March and rose from the dead on the twenty-fifth. Christians of the time of Constantine accordingly celebrated the twenty-fifth of March as the date of the resurrection. Saviours from Osiris, through Prometheus to Attis also rose from the dead after three days' burial, and their resurrection was often the twenty-fifth of March. At the annual celebration of the resurrection of the Persian Saviour Mithras the Mediator, the priests exclaimed in a solemn voice: Be of good cheer, thou sorrowful! Your God has come again to life. His sorrows and his sufferings will save you. The twenty-fifth of March was for the ancient Persians the start of a new year. On that day they celebrated the feast of the Neuroner. On the same day the Romans celebrated the festival of the Hilaria. Clement of Alexandria explained that their foundation was the fictitious death and resurrection of the sun, the soul of the world, the principle of life and motion. The inauguration of spring, the twenty-fifth of March, and the summer solstice, the twenty-fifth of June, were both important times for the ancients. The midsummer solstice was fixed on as the birthday of John the Baptist, when the sun begins to decline southward—decrease—because he said, I shall decrease, but he shall increase. The twenty-fifth of March is the day of the conception and annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It was previously the conception of the ancient Roman Virgin Asteria, and of the ever-chaste and holy virgin, Iris... Jesus said that anybody could raise the dead. He did not think it was that hard. Matthew 10 8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give. Here are some others: Romulus, Apollonius of Tyana, Drusilla, Claudius, Dionysus-Bacchus, Tammuz-Adonis, Mithra, Osiris, Krishna, and Buddha.