| Aren’t there some striking parallels between the Jesus and Beddru stories? |
| That depends. What, exactly, are the Beddru stories? Skeptics
claim that this was a Japanese god who influenced Christianity, but Japanese
mythology shows no such god. Neither does the mythology of any other
country. In fact, the name 'Beddru' couldn't be Japanese, since the
letter combonations of 'ddr' and 'dru' do not exist in the Japanese language
(and 'dd' itself exists only in words borrowed from other languages). Some
sites note that his name is also 'Beddin', but the combination 'ddi' doesn't
exist and, again, the 'dd' itself is problematic. The
Encyclopedia Mythica lists over
200 Japanese gods, and there's no 'Beddru' or 'beddin' on the list. Unless
anyone out there can familiarize me with past or present worshippers of
'Beddru/Beddin', this can be safely written off as an anti-Christian hoax.
I see that Acharya S is now saying that "Beddru" is a misspelling of "Beddou", an alternate name for Buddha. So just go to my Buddha page for a debunking of this one.
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