In ancient Persia, the god Mithras was said to be born from a virgin on December 25th.

People tell me this all the time, and they'll name somebody, Mithras or somebody.

Oh, yeah, Mithras, yeah, you know, and he had 12 disciples.

And, you know, with Mithras, you say, what ancient sources talk about Mithras?

People like the Bill Mars of the world and the people who post badly cropped Facebook posts

claiming all these similarities between paganism and Christianity. If these people want to make

that claim, we should press them as Bart Ehrman does and say, oh, great, what ancient sources

are you talking about that point to this? Because the reality is, this is largely coming from a

couple of places. Welcome back to

James Popery. I'm Joe Heschmire. And as Christians prepare to celebrate the virgin birth of Jesus

Christ, many non-Christians are preparing to tell their Christian friends and neighbors that actually

the virgin birth is a pagan story that Christianity stole. Does it ever bother you that the story of a man who was born of a virgin was resurrected?

Your bio was something that was going around the Mediterranean for at least a thousand years?

Why do so many gods from ancient cultures share the same stories?

Why are virgin births, crucifixions, resurrections, and divine

sons of God so common? So is this true? Did Christianity steal details like the virgin birth and even

the crucifixion from paganism? Now, I've done videos exploring the alleged borrowing from paganism of the December 25th date

for Christmas, as well as other things like the Christmas tree, but I haven't done just the

virgin birth.

I want to focus on that specifically.

Now, with these kind of religious borrowing or stealing claims, there's really three

things.

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