Osiris and the Eucharist

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One objection to the Eucharist which I have been given, to try and make it out to be paganistic, is that Osiris also had a “eucharist”. From what I’ve read, it seems to be somewhat true. However, I don’t see this to be a real argument against the Eucharist. What do you all think about this objection?
 
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One objection to the Eucharist which I have been given, to try and make it out to be paganistic, is that Osiris also had a “eucharist”. From what I’ve read, it seems to be somewhat true. However, I don’t see this to be a real argument against the Eucharist. What do you all think about this objection?
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This is something we’ve heard before. It’s nonsense, and manufactured. Check this out: forums.catholic-questions.org/showpost.php?p=5343681&postcount=7

More answers on the thread that post comes from: forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=348358
 
It’s no comparison of Jesus and our Eucharist except to unnecessarily try to confuse people.
We are not transformed into replicas of Osiris

Since the ancient Nilotics believed that humans were whatever they eat, this sacrament was, by extension, able to make them celestial and immortal.

Jesus said,when He changed the bread and wine said, “Do this in memory of me” He didn’t say, so we would become gods and immortal. Our souls are already immortal.
 
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One objection to the Eucharist which I have been given, to try and make it out to be paganistic, is that Osiris also had a “eucharist”. From what I’ve read, it seems to be somewhat true. However, I don’t see this to be a real argument against the Eucharist. What do you all think about this objection?
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Yes, this is a common claim among atheists and pagans. They see similarites in the ancient pagan religions and they believe Christianity (as one more made up religion, they believe) simply borrowed from them. As if this settles the matter.

What they don’t realize is that God was preparing humanity to receive the True Revelation. God as the Master Story Teller was quietly speaking to them through their stories and myths so that when Christianity, the True Myth, as Tolkien called, appeared it would be recognized as Truth. Which of course, it was for millions of unsatisfied pagans. Tolkien explains this rather well:

Building on this philosophy of myth, Tolkien explained to Lewis that the story of Christ was the true myth at the very heart of history and at the very root of reality. Whereas the pagan myths were manifestations of God expressing Himself through the minds of poets, using the images of their “mythopoeia” to reveal fragments of His eternal truth, the true myth of Christ was a manifestation of God expressing Himself through Himself, with Himself, and in Himself. God, in the Incarnation, had revealed Himself as the ultimate poet who was creating reality, the true poem or true myth, in His own image. Thus, in a divinely inspired paradox, myth was revealed as the ultimate realism

catholiceducation.org/articles/arts/al0107.html

God Bless
 
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One objection to the Eucharist which I have been given, to try and make it out to be paganistic, is that Osiris also had a “eucharist”. From what I’ve read, it seems to be somewhat true. However, I don’t see this to be a real argument against the Eucharist. What do you all think about this objection?
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I think P.T. Barnum was right.
 
Ah, okay. Thank you all for your responses! 😃 I appreciate them very much. They were extremely helpful.
Dominus Vobiscum!
 
This pagan copycat stuff never dies. Look here for a good refutation of all of them:

tektonics.org/copycathub.html

The site is from a Protestant POV but I don’t think that matters on this particular subject. Look under “copycat saviors”.

None even come close to resembling Jesus except in the most base, lowest common denominator way. It’s 19th Century junk, a self-parody of comparative religion.
 
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