Jesus and Mithras: The curious coincidences of the man and the myth (Video)

The Vatican was built upon the grounds previously devoted to the worship of Mithra (the bull guy-600 B.C.). The Orthodox Christian hierarchy is nearly identical to the Mithraic version. If a coincidence it’s a massive one, but judge for yourselves.

Virtually all of the elements of Orthodox Christian rituals, from miter, wafer, water baptism, alter, and doxology, were adopted from the Mithra and earlier pagan mystery religions. The religion of Mithra preceded Christianity by roughly six hundred years. Mithraic worship at one time covered a large portion of the ancient world. It flourished as late as the second century. The Messianic idea originated in ancient Persia and this is where the Jewish and Christian concepts of a Savior originated.

In this clip from the British show QI, Stephen Fry and co. discuss the strange similarities between the Christian savior and the far cooler and more mystical Roman/Persian god Mithras, who shares the December 25 birthday, and had twelve disciples of his own, and was birthed in the form of a mortal to a virgin mother…and…and…and….But why tease? Here’s the video starring the inimitable Stephen Fry:

Thanks to disinformation.com, and neardeath.com for their contributions to this story. Video uploaded to YouTube by BlissfulKnowledge.