This
entire G.K. Chesterton essay is worthy of consideration, but my favourite bit is this
splendid, gleeful demolition of the anti-Christian argument from Incarnation mythology:
“Mr. Blatchford and his school point out
that there are many myths parallel to the Christian story; that there were
Pagan Christs, and Red Indian Incarnations, and Patagonian Crucifixions, for
all I know or care. But does not Mr. Blatchford see the other side of this
fact? If the Christian God really made the human race, would not the human race
tend to rumours and perversions of the Christian God? If the center of our life
is a certain fact, would not people far from the center have a muddled version
of that fact? If we are so made that a Son of God must deliver us, is it odd that
Patagonians should dream of a Son of God?”
Chesterton goes on to break that down further ...