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When I said that I was really talking to you more than him because you made more posts than he did, but he was the one talking so I sort of combined your arguments into one.

Now I just want to restate my argument. You two are invalidating the major religions of today (I'll just focus on Abrahamic religions) because according to you, they "stole from astrology." Of course this statement alone is incredibly vague and really has no meaning. It could mean that ancient people saw similar universal truths in the world, and some attributed them to a god or gods while others attributed it to the stars. Or it could just as easily mean that religion is as reliable as the horoscopes you read in the newspaper. If you meant the former, then I have no problem at all with what you're saying. I do believe the universe is more than what is observable, but I also don't believe that any religious book is literally true. However, if you mean the latter, then I do take issue with what you're saying. Because as I've said, no matter what the true origin of any religion is, various learned people have taken their own understanding of the universe and expanded that religion well beyond whatever its origin was. That is what's important, what makes religions objectively not fake, and what makes religion good for the world in my opinion.

BTW Synth, your claim that Jesus is just a copy of Mithras is wrong. I already linked you a source above, here's another linkthat itself links various sources: http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/mithras/display.php?page=Mithras_and_Jesus
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