Dixie - In Memoriam
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Mithraism had legions of followers a THOUSAND YEARS before Jesus was born ..
I will add this... 40,000 years before Mithraism, civilizations practiced ritual burials with ceremonial red ocher. They obviously believed in some kind of afterlife or spiritual world.
I can also add this... Biology and the study of animal behavior has indicated that living organisms behave in a certain way for a reason, nothing behaviorally is ever present that is without purpose or reason. Sometimes it takes us many years to determine the reason, but there always is a reason for any behavioral characteristic. In humans, we have a profound need to worship a higher authority. Whether that be God, Nature, Nature's God, The Sun, Little Green Men, or Science. It's just how we are programmed as humans. Going purely by what we've observed in every other species of living organism, there must be a reason for this behavior, else it would not exist in man.