Why does no one believe in Mithras?
You are confused. The god is named Mithra. The religion is an off-shoot of Zoroastrianism. The story of Mithra’s birth, many centuries before Jesus, closely parallels that of Jesus. There was a star that astrologers from Babylon followed; shepherds were watching when he was born. Difference is that where Jesus was conceived without sperm, and was born of a virgin, Mithra was born from a rock. Either way, a couple of pretty good tricks never repeated so far as I have heard. The religion never spread of took hold of a nation because only men were admitted, and we all know that it is mothers who carry the infection of religious indoctrination.
Mithra is still worshiped by Roman reconstructionists. Christians don’t WANT to know about Mithra, Horus or any deity whose story closely relates to the Christ myth. Or other flood myths, or creation myths. It’s odd – they scoff and dismiss other creation, flood, creator and savior god stories as myths and ridiculous but expect others to believe the stories in the Bible because the Bible says the stories are true. Pretzel logic! Other myths say they are correct as well and those deities are/were just as real to their followers. Added: Skj – gotta welcome that Christian love you’re sending out there. And people wonder why so many are LEAVING Christianity. And others who say the Roman gods aren’t worshiped and were false – they are still worshiped (along with Celtic, Greek, Slavic, Egyptian……) Besides, Mithra was a Persian deity that was very favored by the Romans – they welcomed all religions (except those that demanded that there were no other deities than their own desert god).
