04-15-2010, 10:33 AM
Quote:were all common elements of pre-Christian Pagan religions. Mithras had 'em. So did Dionysus, Attis, Osiris, and Orpheus.
this is the modernist position: that christianity is just another false heathen "religion." Nothing will be gained by Hindus by following these types of uber-western critics: the Dawkins and Hitchens. The ones who are stridently anti-islam, e.g. the spencers and splenglers, are likewise a dead end.