httpvp://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=852CB55CA84EBD1B
From The History Channel, and hat tip to Debunking Christianity.
A heartfelt happy birthday to Jesus, Mithra, Horus, Attis, Osiris, Krishna, Buddha, Zoroaster, Heracles, Dionysus, Adonis, Hermes, Bacchus, and Prometheus. Especial happy birthday to those that were virgin births… being the vast majority of the listed.
2 comments
khan
December 25, 2009 at 9:25 pm CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Interesting. Something can become a ‘tradition’ in less than 20 years.
Desert Tortoise
December 30, 2009 at 1:17 am CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
The nativity story is well known to be an invention of Luke and Matthew. They saw a need to make a link between Jesus and David because of previous prophesies about the coming Messiah. Nearly all theologians who work at universities, religious or not, already know this story has nearly no chance of being historically “true.”