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Now what religion copied this one ... hmmmm. I wonder if anyone can figure this out.

Now what religion copied this one ... hmmmm. I wonder if anyone can figure this out. | SAY HELLO TO 
THE GOD ATTIS
CIRCA 1250 BCE; Attis was born on December 25th of the Virgin Nana/Cybele.
He was a shepherd. He was called the “only begotten son,” 
the Logos/Word and the savior slain 
for the salvation of mankind. His cult had a sacrificial meal, at which, it is contended, his body was "bread" and
was eaten by his worshippers. Looks like someone took him up on it and ate his nose! He castrated himself, bled to death and was hung on a tree,  from which his "holy blood ran down to redeem the earth."
He descended into the underworld. His priests were eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven.
Attis served as both the Divine Son and the Father. After three days, Attis was resurrected/restored to life (as a tree) on March 25th and proclaimed the “Most High God.” Hence, a spring-time fertility festival. SOUND FAMILIAR? | image tagged in the god attis,atheist,christianity is a copycat religion | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
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Sources:
Harari, Josue V. Textual Strategies: Perspectives in Post-Structural Criticism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1979.
Lane, Eugene N., ed. Cybele, Attis and Related Cults. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1996.
Leeming, David Adams. Mythology: The Voyage of the Hero. New York/Oxford University Press, 1998.
Merrony, Mark. “An Ivory Throne for Herculaneum.” minervamagazine.com/news.asp?min_issue=MAR_APR2008
Mettinger, Tryggve D. The Riddle of the Resurrection. Coronet, 2001.
Murdock, D.M. Christ in Egypt: The Horus-Jesus Connection. Seattle: Stellar House Publishing, 2009.
–“The Real ZEITGEIST Challenge.” stellarhousepublishing.com/zeitgeist-challenge.html
Rigoglioso, Marguerite. Virgin Mother Goddesses of Antiquity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Stone, Merlin. When God was a Woman. New York: Dorset Press, 1990.
Tacey, David John. Patrick White: Fiction, and the Unconscious. Melbourne/New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Toulson, Shirley. The Winter Solstice. London: Jill Norman & Hobhouse, 1981.
Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef. Cybele, Attis, and Related Cults: Essays in Memory of M. J. Vermaseren. Leiden/New York: E.J. Brill, 1996.
Walker, Barbara G. The Woman’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets. HarperSanFrancisco, 1983.

For more information, see The ZEITGEIST Sourcebook.

The ZEITGEIST Sourcebook: Part I – The Greatest Story Ever Told (2010) by D. M. Murdock (a.k.a. Acharya S) serves as a companion reference to the first part of the film Zeitgeist: The Movie, documenting and citing over 150 academic sources to argue that many central motifs of Christianity (including the virgin birth, the son of god, death and resurrection, and December 25 as a holy date) derive from much older mythologies rooted in solar worship and “astro–theology” found in ancient Egypt, India, Greece and the Near East. The Sourcebook presents a layered argument that religious narratives reflect personifications of the sun, moon, stars, and seasonal cycles, and that Christian iconography and doctrine borrow heavily from these earlier traditions.
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Yeah, actually, that stuff is just speculation, totally false, the sources are speculative.
Now don't go all "that's not true" over me, I haven't actually read the sources, but this is what it appears to be at a glance. No extra evidence to support my point...yet.
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Only a person of faith could look at 10 sources and say, "you didn't provide any evidence." Sheesh. You failed debate class, didn't you? Or are you some stupid woke democrat politician?
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Haha! Surely that's not what you thought I meant! I said I haven't looked through your evidence, so I can't try to prove my point. Don't dis me for stating the truth.
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Well now I can confidently say this claim to be false. Very interesting that people will find "similarities" that were never there.
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Of course you do. It would destroy your faith, and your own ego, to admit otherwise. YOU are your own god.
0 ups, 3w
Pfft. Either you worship yourself, making YOU your god, you worship science, making science your god, or you worship whatever consumes you.
It's profound to say that I worship myself.
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Honestly, considering how many times Jesus has been said to been cobbled from other Gods, I take this with more than a grain of salt
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Oh people are so desperate to find them that they take unrelated similarities and even nonexistent ones.
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12 sources but you dismiss them all. Congrats! You're a "believer"
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Not the most reliable or unbiased of sources, you must admit
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Proof?
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There are thousands of incorrect sources. That argument sounds more like an insult than an actual line of reasoning.
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SAY HELLO TO THE GOD ATTIS CIRCA 1250 BCE; Attis was born on December 25th of the Virgin Nana/Cybele. He was a shepherd. He was called the “only begotten son,” the Logos/Word and the savior slain for the salvation of mankind. His cult had a sacrificial meal, at which, it is contended, his body was "bread" and was eaten by his worshippers. Looks like someone took him up on it and ate his nose! He castrated himself, bled to death and was hung on a tree, from which his "holy blood ran down to redeem the earth." He descended into the underworld. His priests were eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven. Attis served as both the Divine Son and the Father. After three days, Attis was resurrected/restored to life (as a tree) on March 25th and proclaimed the “Most High God.” Hence, a spring-time fertility festival. SOUND FAMILIAR?