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To: rzman21

Do a search on “queen of heaven mother of gods”. Learn who Nimrod, Semiramis and Tammuz were. God talks about them in the Old Testament.


2,700 posted on 12/04/2011 7:22:34 PM PST by CynicalBear
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To: CynicalBear

I’ll do a search on things that have nothing in common. Apples and oranges my friend.

Mary IS NOT DIVINE, PERIOD!!!! I honor her as the Mother of our God who became the new Eve, but I don’t regard her as divine.


2,705 posted on 12/04/2011 7:27:36 PM PST by rzman21
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To: CynicalBear

Ah, yes, pagan comparisons: the final refuge of the anti-Christian.

I’ve seen it among atheists, agnostics and anti-Christians before. By comparing similarities of pagan gods and myths, they think they “explain away” Christ as just another version.

Melicertes, Melqart, Ugaritic Baa, Adonis, Osiris, Dumuzi, Heracles, Eshmun, Alcmene, Castor… various similarities in names or heritage, “son a god, resurrected, immortal, born a man,’ etc., Christ is thereby, according to them, either the same only re-branded, or either a myth or a hoax for the superstitious, etc.

No matter where one begins, once one starts down this road on their own, they tend to continue. What they think as a weapon against part of the Church can easily become the weapon they use on Christianity as a whole, they battle themselves with it, and lose.

I’ve seen adamant “Christian’ anti-Catholics on FR end up first as Arians and then denying the divinity of Christ in the span of a couple of years.


2,721 posted on 12/04/2011 7:47:42 PM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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Sorry, Post 2721 was intended to ping you...
2,725 posted on 12/04/2011 7:50:38 PM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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