Originally posted by: Crono
Originally posted by: jonks
did you bother scrolling down to the reference list? Horus was being worshipped for a thousand years when jesus was born. His worshippers recognized his birthday as Dec 25, his dad was Joseph, and he raised Lazarus from the dead. Selective list my ass. And if you take the bible at its word, then you have a lot of chutzpah claiming that something about Horus was made up.
THe bible was writen hundreds of years later from a combination of whole cloth fabrication, previous messianic legends, and word of mouth generations separated from any possibly actual events along the lines of "the romans crucified some guy who thought he was god or something"
Reference list is secondary. Those aren't the religious texts of the Egyptians, those are other website and books which I would have to obtain and check. Once of those websites, an About.com reference page, even says:
Encyclopedia Mythica article on Horus. Stephanie Cass says, "The name "Horus" is a general catchall for multiple deities.... In all the Horus deities the traits of kingship, sky and solar symbology, and victory reoccur. As the prototype of the earthly king, there were as many Horus gods as there were rulers of Egypt, if not more."
You could assemble a George Washington prototype from the stories of various leaders that came before him, but that doesn't mean the actual story of him was inspired by the others.
Your list is selective. Since you are using a secondary source, I will, too. THe following info is from Wikipedia.
"Horus was also said to be a war god and a hunter's god; since he was associated with the falcon. Thus he became a symbol of majesty and power as well as the model of the pharaohs.[6] The pharaohs were said to be Horus in human form."
Doesn't sound like Jesus.
"By the Nineteenth dynasty, the enmity between Set and Horus, in which Horus had ripped off one of Set's testicles, was represented as a separate tale. According to Papyrus Chester-Beatty I, Set is depicted as trying to prove his dominance by seducing Horus and then having intercourse with him."
Doesn't sound like Jesus.
"Horus is recorded in Egyptian hieroglyphs as ?r.w and is reconstructed to have been pronounced *?aru, meaning "Falcon". As a description it has also typically been thought of as having the meaning "the distant one" or "one who is above, over"[2] By Coptic times, the name became Hor. It was adopted into Greek as ???? Horos. The original name also survives in later Egyptian names such as Har-Si-Ese literally "Horus, son of Isis"."
Doesn't sound like Jesus.
You can't even compare the two, because there is a record of who Jesus said He was, there is a unified and consistent account with multiple witness accounts of who he was found in the Bible. Even if you reject the Bible as mythology, it's consistent, unlike texts concerning Horus. Which is why, again, I ask you what are the primary sources for the Horus mythology.