Foolish Claims

   Have you ever watched the movie "Religulous?" It is a movie about Bill Maher travelling all over the world interviewing different religious leaders and editing different words and moments throughout the segment to make them seem foolish and unstable. The interviews are incredibly misleading. Do yourself a favour and do not watch it!
   So (against my better judgment) I just watched "Religulous"- trying to get some background on things that I've been hearing non-Christians say about the movie regarding Christianity. Bill Maher absolutely butcher a massive bit of religious history. He mentions the Egyptian god, Horus. He says that Horus, who supposedly lived (those some would contest that this account is entirely mythological) hundreds of years before Christ. Bill Maher claims that Horus was the son of Osiris (an Egyptian god), was born of a virgin and that he rose from the grave. All three of these events are different in almost every account. But Mr. Maher would lie to you just to attack the validity of the Bible. For example, in many accounts Osiris is listed as Horus' brother- not his father. This, in itself, debunks Maher's suggestion. Horus could not have been the son of a god who was his brother. Second, Horus' mother, Isis (who was a goddess herself), was not a virgin. Neither was Horus' birth a virgin birth- but rather the product magic from his goddess mother. (And if you want to learn how Isis "conceived" Horus in an immoral way- which I will not mention now- look it up of Wikipedia) Third, according my understanding of the accounts, Horus wasn't so much "resurrected" as he just began indwelling future Pharaohs.
   Well God the Father was actually Jesus' Father. Jesus was actually born of a virgin. And He actually did rise from the grave- not just reincarnate Himself into future rulers. No matter how foolish (though seemingly intellectual) these men may be in trying to suggest that the Gospel message is nothing more than a summary of other religious accounts, their efforts fall drastically short. And when consider in light of the actual facts, these supposedly "intellectual" men look rather foolish.