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I've been holding my tongue on this for a while, but I REALLY need to see your sources for the copycat messiah section of your book. Especially regarding Mithra. Where are you finding almost exact details on Christ from?

Sources I've looked into tell me Mithra was born of a rock (unusual birth, but not virgin unless you strip virgin of much of its context) and never actually died in any of the traditions he was portrayed in.

I looked through my sources, and the sources of my sources, and you're absolutely correct. All of the books that I've looked through--including: "Cassel's Commentary On Esther", "The Mysteries of Mithra", and "Religious Systems of the World"--talk about Mithra being born either from a cave or from the cave rocks themselves. Whether this is meant literally or poetically, it's obviously not similar to the virgin birth dictated in the bible.

A couple of the books do reference a story of Mithra being born of a human virgin, all of which cite Elisaeus (AKA Eliseus) an Armenian historian. However, they state that Elisaeus lived around 450 C.E., long after the origins of Mithra had been established, and after the writing of the New Testament.

Thank you very much for pointing this out to me. I'll correct my mistake for the next revision and go through all of the other Mithra claims to make sure that they apply to the pre-Christian Mithra only.