:I've skimmed over that pdf. I can't find the guy's name who wrote it anywhere so it might as well be Wikipedia:No original research Also, while he mentions that Mastrocinque hasn't been refuted, I don't remember him giving examples but I could be wrong. Anyway, I'm not sure what anyone is trying to argue here. If it's authentic, then it seems to date around the second or third century. Big whoop. I don't understand how Christianity is  argued to be the religion that stole EVERYTHING but had nothing stolen from it by someone else. But really, just think about it. Out of any ideas to be borrowed would the Christians really borrow being crucified? Would they really want God to be killed in the most disgraceful way? That's like saying if Jesus was shot with an arrow, someone said they stole the idea from some Greek god who got shot with an arrow. Crucifixition isn't something mythical that happens. It's just something very real that happened to a lot of people. I'm pretty sure if there's one historical fact that everyone agrees on about Jesus, it's the crucifxition. IMO, the stone looks like a forgery. The art that it was compared to was pretty bad. This looks too three dimensional to have been made back then. Also, where is the story about this person being crucified in the first place? That pdf points out that Justin Matyr even says that no other pagan god had been crucified.