"wow! you are lumping all beliefs into the same box, and then throwing it out in the garbage"
Sarc, if you read a new book featuring a magicians' school, an owl delivering the mail, a talking hat, a flying car, a game played while flying around on broom sticks etc etc, and this book was not written by JK Rowling and not called "Harry Potter", would you be thinking there's a bit of plagiarism taking place?
Now given that everything in christian mythology is mirrored in numerous pagan religions, dating back hundreds of years before Jesus was a twinkle in "God's" eye, how is contemporary religious doctrine not lies?
