Quote Originally Posted by Rhyfelwyr View Post
If anything, that would surely support TR's claims? If there was an ancient flood, you would expect other cultures to have records of it.
Or that one culture has influenced another culture, or indeed has taken it over as their own. I don't think many people with historical knowledge would claim that Jesus was born on 25th December. The presence of festivals around that period in many other cultures isn't proof that they were celebrating the birth of the Son of God. Look into the timing of when Christmas began to be celebrated and other Christian festivities, and it's far more likely that organised Christianity took on the stories of other cultures and appropriated them for itself. Eg. the song "We wish you a merry Christmas".