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Christians think they have a unique event...Christ Rising from the dead. But, of course, that myth has been around for ages. Long before the sandal wearing hippie ever walked the dunes between Jerusalem and Galilee, rode an ass in Damascus or faced his fate on a cross planted atop a hill, mythical characters were rising from the dead.
So, really, what we have here is myth sharing. Clearly, since Jesus came after all these other resurrected characters from what amount to fairy tales, reason dictates the Jesus myth too is a fairy tale.
Now, of course, Christians will say those other resurrections are myths but the resurrection of Jesus was real. Of course, we know better. Fact remains, Jesus myth is just as contrived as the Osirus and Achilles myths. Is there any doubt?
Look at us, today! We're on the same side!
You're right -- the Jesus myth is a copy of previous myths.
I, however, would go a step further and state that Jesus, even as a man, never existed, and was simply a figment in the imagination of the myth-makers, most likely the Essene leaders of the time.
There is no contemporary, extraneous evidence for Jesus outside of the religious scriptures, yet it stands to reason that if the scriptures were true, one of the historians of the day would have recorded something about the man that people were making claims as to being able to walk on water, turn water to wine, heal the sick and raise the dead. Yet, none exist, and I hate to even open that can of worms, because someone's going to scream "Josephus," but he, of course, lived after Jesus supposedly died so not a "contemporary" historian, but rather one who had to rely on the stories that were coming from the religious documents and the followers who were beginning to amass.
The idea of a resurrection was a common pagan theme back then, and virtually required for anyone to take notice of a new messiah.