Thursday, December 28, 2017

Jesus vs Osiris

One of the most common objections to Christianity is that we stole our ideas and understanding our theology and beliefs from pagan sources. One of the most popular examples is that of arguing that Jesus is copied from Osiris from Egyptian mysteries religions. The video below does a good job of comparing Jesus with what we know Ancient Egyptians thought of Osiris and showing that "one of these is not like the other".

How Average People Fall For The Flat-Earth Conspiracy

This is an interesting video where people who believe in flat earth are interviewed in why they believe the earth is flat. Turns out that they aren't all stupid...some are just looking for meaning in existence.







The thing that amazed me was that some people seemed to think that the thought that we live in a meaningless universe without purpose is connected to the earth being round. I don't understand that at all. The ideas are not connected. We can be living on a round earth following the science we currently observe without existential crisis - but with only knowing that there is a God. I disagree that a round earth leads to the philosophical conclusions given by many atheists like  Richard Dawkins.