Holiday Greetings! A coworker and I were busy at work in our laboratory, when we sensed a presence. We looked up and saw Him! RAmen. He was missing only one, two actually, things to complete the visage. Those were procured later, thru piracey, of a tree in the lobby representing another religion that shares this happy time of year. We know you will see it too.
@MJK: It is a parody. It’s just that the things they say are the logical result of taking the OT seriously, and they do the nastiness of american bible belt fundamentalists perfectly.
@ Fr. CC
Okay, I get you now. Thanks, it’s been a long day for me as well.
RAmen
@FCC
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http://tektonics.org/copycat/mithra.html
is pretty good, though you’ve probably already found it, seing as it’s referenced at the bottom of the page.
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It isn’t looking good for the Jeebus comparison here…
I read through all that Jingles. It seems pretty indepth and quite convincing, but I’m pretty ignorant about such things.
I would like to read something from someone knowlegeable without a vested interest though, if that were possible? An objective agnostic scholar in Mithraic studies, perhaps. But like the guy says on that page:
“the practical difficulty of any one scholar mastering all the necessary fields” — linguistics, anthropology, history (Indian, Iranian, and Roman!), archaeology, iconography, sociology — in order to get a grip on Mithraic studies.
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You know Jingles, aside from the whole Mithras vs christianity thing, isn’t the whole celebration thing, on the 25th, still to do with the winter solstice? What the hell are we doing celebrating it in Oz? We are on top of the summer solstice now! Those who suggest we celebrate with Santa, presents ect. in the middle of winter, may be on the right track. I know I could certainly eat a lot more, of the scrumptious food that abounds at this time of year, in the cooler months. Especially the prawns. I can eat a lots of those in summer, but I’m sure I could eat more of them in winter. Hmm….I’m getting hungry…bring on the 25th already!
RAmen
Not really a prawn guy myself. I’m more the sort that stands around in thongs, having a few mates round, toss our weiners on the barbie, and knock back a long cold one.
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(To anyone that doesn’t know Aussie slang, there is nothing dirty in that… it just sounds like it…)
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Seriously though… look at it this way Nikkiee; Christmas is just an excuse for a party right?
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So, while all those poor yanks and poms crowd around stonehenge and wherever it is American hippies go (probably San Francisco), freezing their titties off to observe the winter solstice, we can all go down to the beach in the evening (where it’s still light, thank FSM for Daylight savings in W.A.), pull out a few beach towels, and enjoy the summer solstice in the way that has been for centuries; drunk as skunks off fermented grain product.
Mmmmm… fremented grain product. Incedentaly, what is vodka made of?
vodka has been ma of all sorts of things, including various grains (barley, wheat or rye) and traditionally potatoes.
i saw the dembski thing, how fucking pathetic. a pathetic and incredibly not funny production from one of the so-called leaders of the ID movement. what’s the matter dembski, can’t get over the fact that even a conservative christian judge can freely admit that ID is a lot of shit. seriously, if i were to see dembski, i would tell him to get over himself and stop making people hate him so much.