Moses Ten Commandments were taken from the Code Of Hannarabi from the early Indus culture. Mythras was the Persian God whose birthday occurred on December 25, by the old calendars. He was reputed to have been born of a virgin birth. There are so many examples of mythology that lead to present day religious beliefs.

By the way, Thomas Paine was a Deist. The founding Fathers of the Constitution would be mortified at the way contemporary Christians have interpreted that document as a defense of their beliefs. Tom didn't have much use for atheists, however. He was pretty adamant about that in "The Age Of Reason". This is also true of Hitler who decried atheism as well.

Most of the testimony of the Apostles in the so-called Bible could not have historically written those chapters. Bart Ehrman has set that to rest in "MIsquoting Jesus" and his other books. The Bible was concocted, pieced and pasted together first by ignorant scribes who could copy but not read and later by clerics and priests who changed the stories around to fit their agenda.