Then where did Christianity come from, the Sun god, as Med Woman says?
Your question doesn't have merit. Basically you're saying that Odin must exist otherwise where did the belief in Odin come from. Religions/beliefs have come and gone over the years and will continue to do so. Because people have those beliefs/subscribe to those religions does not in any way mean that the main character of that belief was real.
Now, for some bizarre reason my response to another post in a different thread ended up here. Admittedly my computer was going a little bit wonky at the time, (which in turn prompted me to run a virus scan), but the point was simply that people have beliefs, (even to this day), that actually have no basis in reality. I think I'm correct in saying Snopes is an entire site dedicated to pointing out the error in many of those beliefs - even though you might argue that the belief must be true because it couldn't have formed out of thin air.
But we are a really strange species. Would you believe that in the year 2007 there are grown men that want to be dressed up in nappies and get spanked? It's ridiculous. What is equally ridiculous is that people in the year 2007 accept the very word of people they never knew or met that lived thousands of years ago while instantly denying the word of another bunch of people they never knew or met that lived thousands of years ago without any sane reason to do either.
They dismiss Odin because the story sounds stupid, but yet believe that there's a big floaty guy in the sky that loves them dearly, will give them a life part II, while burning some people for eternity because of some scary mean monster being that he created. It's so laughable I'd wet my pants on a daily basis if it wasn't for the fact that so many people buy into it - all based upon the word of people as equally idiotic, if not more so, than every other human currently in existence.
Why am I even explaining this to a person that can't even manage to type more than one line? What am I going to get in response? I would implore you to try. For a moment consider the possibility that you're going to die tomorrow. What have you left the world? When people mention that you were a great crusader for christianity, that you spent your time trying to bring people to the truth.. what are they going to show them? You saying "surely not"? Is that worth being remembered for?
The facts of the matter are that religions/religious texts are largely borrowed from other cultures/stories. The first parts of the OT are clearly Sumerian of origin. Your festivals for example, (christmas/easter etc), are all taken from other beliefs - the practices you follow stem from earlier beliefs and so on. While I personally wouldn't flat out say "christianity came from sun god worship", you can see it's influence in christianity, (including christmas day, 25th December - birth of a sun god). The Hebrew word for sun comes from the name of an Akkadian sun god etc. You can see the influence of other beliefs everywhere you turn without even trying. Everytime you look up in the sky you see a collection of god, (Mars/Jupiter etc), several of the jewish months are named after Sumerian gods. In England the cooker is called a 'hob' which comes from the hobgoblin - a protector of the fireplace. You literally cannot escape old belief/superstition. That doesn't make any of it true, it just means humans are stupid.
As an amusing side note.. All these gods given their own planets etc and yet jesus missed out. The only time anyone seemingly says his name is when they do something stupid; "jesus f****** christ", they say when they drop the glass bowl, run over the dog, set fire to the carpet.
