I always found the "Mary is actually Isis" talking point funnier than "Jesus is actually Horus", as someone who actually worships Isis. "Sorry Christoids, but the Egyptians have a monopoly on the veneration of maternal figures, and to do it yourselves is literally stealing and you should give it back!"
Yeah, the idea that Christianity is "stealing" anything from other religions, as if religious beliefs are IP in the modern sense and all Zsuzsanna Budapest needs to do is hire Bent Pixels to copryight-strike every YouTube video of "Ave Maria", has got to take the cake here--as, of course, does the analogous lazy non-criticism of the other big proselytizing religions.
I always thought that the point of the Horus thing was not some moral indictment of Christianity for intellectual property violations, but rather an argument against its truthfulness (regardless of the veracity of the Horus link) - essentially drawing on comparative mythology to point out that Christianity’s claim to be the one true faith is rather tenuous considering that it contains tropes common in the folklore of many societies that significantly predated it.
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