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Pagan Christs: Chapter II. The Teaching God: § 8. Th...

Biblical CriticismComparative Savior MythologyJohn M. RobertsonPagan Christs

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At the first critical glance into Buddhistic origins, the student becomes aware of a dilemma. The Buddha, we are told, delivered a teaching which, though it did not directly repudiate, yet ignored and treated as valueless the belief in deities; and the movement he set up was thus practically atheistic; yet the legends of his own birth, and many of the narratives concerning his life, are in terms of the supernaturalist beliefs of both earlier and later times. As regards the birth legends, they…

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