w/o deep understanding of ancient Persian mythology, you don't know Christianity
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Date: July 26th, 2024 7:59 PM Author: insanely creepy dog poop
How can that be true if the Christianity following 380 AD bore basically no resemblance to Christianity from, say, 300 AD?
Are you remotely aware that around 380 AD Persian Mithraism was gaining a major foothold in Rome, especially with the military and one of the main purposes of adopting Christianity was to stop that spread? And that, in order to accomplish the foregoing, they basically just copied a fuck ton of Mithraism into Christianity? Even the costumes worn by clergy was straight up copied from Persian Magi. The day for Christmas was taken from the celebration of the birthday for Mitrha. I can list like 100 other examples.
And that ignores all of the MAJOR Persian ripoffs that existed in pre-380 christianity.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5564909&forum_id=2#47897029)
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Date: July 26th, 2024 8:24 PM Author: Impertinent poppy site
early christianity was a weird amalgamation of greek philosophy, roman political structures (-> ecclesiastical structures), and jewish history/lore/myth, with a ton of other eastern peoples like armenians, syriacs, whatever the hell all made up north africa, etc. etc., mixed in. why single out persia? mithraism, if that's your focus, is so shrouded in mystery that we have no idea what it even entailed or how deeply engrained it was in roman society, let alone how closely it was actually related to anything meaningfully persian. moreover, all sorts of other eastern cults (cybele, isis, etc.) were also huge in rome, and julian's revival, which must've shaped christianity somewhat as the most serious challenge it faced, was more or less straight alexandrian/athenian neoplatonism.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5564909&forum_id=2#47897127) |
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