“Horus Manure”? The Horus-Jesus Straw Man is an Atheist Fiction

Last updated on: June 4, 2015 at 10:53 am by Lisa Mladinich

“Horus Manure”? The Horus-Jesus Straw Man is an Atheist Fiction 2015-06-04T10:53:01-04:00 Lisa Mladinich

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Atheists with aggressive anti-Christian agendas sometimes circulate memes that make spurious claims against Christianity, wrapped in hipster cool and packed, supposedly, with incontrovertible “facts.”

Last night, a wonderful young person dear to me posted the following meme and asked me what I thought about it:

So, I asked some of my more learned friends and colleagues to comment and received the following resources, all of which showed the meme to be totally false. It wasn’t hard.

Catholic apologist, Jon Sorenson writes compellingly, here, taking some of the main claims, point by point:
Factual and funny, here is the LutheranSatire on the Horus/Jesus controversy:

Horus Ruins Christmas

Enjoy one last, hilarious video by LutheranSatire, which exposes the common pitfall of getting important information from the Internet without checking sources:

Horus Reads the Internet

So, for all you budding apologists, remember:

Ask to see primary sources whenever you meet anyone who seems to have amazing, incontrovertible evidence that your faith is totally false. A teensy bit of scratching below the surface will reveal the agenda-driven dishonesty of such material.

And hoof it over to the forums at Catholic Answers whenever you need a place to get started in your search for answers. The commentators there are usually excellent.

God bless you!

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