re: #247 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

The early Christians borrowed heavily from pagan myths to make Jesus miraculous and also familiar to the pagans of the day. It’s not like Jehovah was the first god to impregnate a mortal girl, after all. [And Mary *was* a girl, a teenager at the time]

Yeah, it would’ve been a whole lot easier to spread early Christianity to the ancient pagan Mediterranean world if Jesus was essentially being posited as an analogue to Perseus and other demigods that part of the world was already very familiar with.

Well, that and dropping the whole circumcision thing and saying, “Yeah, don’t sweat it, bacon is still on the menu.”