The Sun has attracted the attention of mankind for adoration all - TopicsExpress

The Sun has attracted the attention of mankind for adoration all over the world from the very beginning of human history. It has attained the position of pre-eminence among the deities of nature in ancient times. The prominence and glory of the solar orb, its beauty and splendour, its importance in the creation and maintenance of life, its regularity in diffusing light and enlightening the whole earth, its primal role in the cosmic evolution and consequent mystery surrounding it, had secured for the Sun a history of interest and importance equalled by none to which every age and every race has contributed its pages. --V.C. Srivastava, Sun-Worship in Ancient India Prayers offered up in Christian worship in the earliest days of the faith were addressed to Our Lord the Sun, evidencing that primitive Christians were quite in the spirit of Pagan forms and ideologies. --Alvin Boyd Kuhn, Easter: The Birthday of the Gods The Christian religion and Masonry have one and the same common origin: Both are derived from the worship of the Sun. The difference between their origin is, that the Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the Sun, in which they put a man whom they call Christ, in the place of the Sun, and pay him the same adoration which was originally paid to the Sun. --Thomas Paine, Age of Reason I find it undeniable that many, many of the epic heroes and ancient patriarchs and matriarchs of the Old Testament were personified stars, planets, and constellations. --Dr. Robert M. Price There is not a conception associated with Christ that is not common to some or all of the Savior cults of antiquity. --JM Robertson, Pagan Christs Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one to believe otherwise. Anyone wanting to believe Jesus lived and walked as a real live human being must do so despite the evidence, not because of it. --C. Dennis McKinsey, The Encyclopedia of Biblical Errancy The gospel story is an artificial, non-historical work. It has been fabricated from source materials that can be identified and traced to their incorporation into the gospels. There is not a particle of hard evidence that Jesus of Nazareth ever existed. --Harold Leidner, The Fabrication of the Christ Myth