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Sites of interest relating to the Mystery of Mithras include:

* Italy: The Basilica of San Clemente in Rome has a preserved mithraeum with the altarpiece still intact in the excavations under the modern church.

and indeed there are remains of mithraeum also in the UK, Hadrian’s Wall, Newcastle and London. So it seems to have been a movement indeed around the time of Christ but I still can’t see the connection for the comparison or parallels.

Here in Brittany, where I live, there is an ancient holy site. It predates Christianity in that it was a Druid site, then it became a Temple for Venus when the Romans were here and then it became a Catholic Church. Seems like an amazingly flawless passage through time without contradictions at all. Just because it is now Christian doesn’t mean that it cannot still relate to Venus and to the Druids. I think that one of the problems with looking at ‘beliefs’ or ‘religions’ is that it is done with either or, in mind, rather than All.

this initial search shows that Mithra long, long,predates Christ and is a much more ancient concept. Doesn’t mean to say it isn’t true - it looks very truthful and ancient and why shouldn’t it of course; it does show that its concept was not at the same time as Jesus lived so I cannot see the direct comparison here.

Perhaps you could let me have your sources for examination?

Also, the thing is that ‘Christianity’ wasn’t ’seeking followers’ like a ‘new religion’. It didn’t work like that at all. They weren’t trying to get people to subscribe to ‘this new way’ most of them were just getting the hell out of Palestine as quickly as they could - the leaders being the first to hop it as in Peter, Paul, Mary, Mary and many others. . . .literally fled the land.

The street level happenings of ‘christianity’ which wasn’t known as such then, is that people were aware that something huge had happened in that there were great wrongs done in Jerusalem. The Roman authorities were involved but didn’t want to be, hence Pilate offering Jesus to be set free before the Passover, he literally wanted to get this guy off his hands (the washing of his hands being the getting rid of this problem analogy) and his wife warned and warned her husband that he really shouldn’t be involved in the persecution of this guy as she had many dreams about the situation. But Pilate was being pushed by the Jewish elders who saw Jesus as a huge threat to their authority and wanted him out of the way sharpish so they put their stooges in the crowd to call for the other guy (Barabbas) to be set free. Jesus was seen as a radical and a trouble maker so he was expediently dealt with - by the Jewish pharisees - before the great Jewish holy day! So, it is not so simple as to put it down to well, there was this guy who brought a ‘new religion’; he didn’t bring any new religion he was a Jew through and through!

It is not a case of marketing in its original growth. I agree that many ‘religious’ sects that come under the banner of Christianity do use marketing but that doesn’t make it right. True following of the lessons that Jesus gave requires you to think for yourself and act on your own conscience. The Vatican Second council established this as the most basic human right in that you are free to worship/contact God according to your own conscience. This then, actually allows and broadens the scope because narrow ‘defining’ ‘christian religious groups’ do not do this. If you consider that the word ‘catholic’ means universal that gives a much wider aspect to how you approach anyone - Hindu, Buddhist, Jew, Muslim. Remember that Gandhi, when asked whether he was a ‘Hindu’ said words to the effect of Yes and I am also a Christian and a Muslim. He knew that the true base teachings of any religious sector are actually saying the same things and it is not necessarily which particular group you select which is always and absolutely right. It goes back to you, your conscience and what your direction is. The intent is all. We can compare, discriminate, analyse and dismiss any and all religions on the basis of contradictions and that some one group is right and so all the others are wrong; but this is not the Truth with a capital ‘t’. The Truth allows for and actively opens you up to challenge your own belief systems. An ancient saying along the lines of: Faith is about seeking the truth without fear. So it doesn’t matter if you lose all your beliefs. This is highly challenging and it leads you to put aside your preconceptions.

The Vatican Hill in Rome - St. Peter’s is the place where Peter was crucified as it was then a circus, an arena for games and slaughtering (usually both). It was on this site, that Peter was buried and then it became a burial ground. Underneath St. Peter’s is the original street (amazing to see) with many coffins. Later on, it became the site for the building of the Church - literally on top of Peter as it had now become a Holy site.

I shall look into the Mithraism thing connection to the same sites as it seems rather odd as you have explained it.
There were also the Essenes and we have the Dead Sea Scrolls. True Christianity isn’t about proving its right to exist and whether its marketing succeeded where another one’s failed; it is about abandoning restrictions, universally, and approaching the world with a very open mind and not discriminating against any one or group because of their own belief systems. In this way it is systemic, not systematic.

I should be interested to continue these discussions and I like your apple in the face and bowler hat picture.