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

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!