Religious Similarity
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So many people stop at the ritual similarities when they compare Christianity with other faiths, but the similiarities go much deeper. For example, the idea of reincarnation and the god coming back on a day of judgement to separate the evil from the good is shared by the followers of the god Mithra. In fact, it is his birthday that was later conscripted by Christians as the date when they celebrate the birth of Christ. The cult of the god Orpheus, known as "the fisher", used the dove and the fish as symbols, two commonly used represenations to denote Jesus.