[SoothingDave]

The question, for me anyway, is why you can accept "similarities" of the Jesus story to pagan myths as OK in this case, as not harmful, as not evidence of pagan influence.

But the exact same type of "similarities" in Mary to pagan myths is evidence, to you, of compromise and influence.

SD

[Invincibly Ignorant]

But the exact same type of "similarities" in Mary to pagan myths is evidence, to you, of compromise and influence.

No. Not the exact type of similarities. Pagan ressurections are myth, Jesus' isn't. In Mary's case Diana's perpetual virginity is a myth and so is Mary's.