The Eye of Horus
I ran across a fascinating series of videos on religious myths in the pre-Christian world, which illustrate some of the remarkable "coincidences" between those myths and the ones of the bible. This is the first video. Here is the second, and finally, the third. The narrator, AakashaEssa, goes a bit off point at the end when he strays from the origins story to pontificate on religion, but I can't argue with much he says. Hope you find it as educational as I did.
According to this article, describing a survey of 126 historical texts from from the time of the alleged life of Jesus, the Nazarene never really existed. There are no verifyable, contemporaneous accounts of the fabled life and exploits of the "Son of God". Seems odd that historians and political leaders in that part of the world wouldn't have mentioned a man allegedly performing remarkable miracles. Even if he was seen as a threat to the religious and political order of the day, they surely wold have written SOMETHING about him, right? That's the way I see it, anyway.
Here's the article - file it under "stuff I pretty much knew but is nice to see confirmed."
