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I read something about them (mainly in Wikipedia), and I see some parallels in artistic style or symbolism, but I don't see a substantial parallel in their stories, although I didn't find much about the story of Sol Invictus. I don't see that someone was nursed as a significant parallel because almost every human was nursed.
I focused on parallels in their stories because I don't see parallels in the style of art depicting them as problematic to Christianity. But most of your previous comment was about artistic depictions, so, if you think that they are problematic, please, explain that more in details.
I'm not even Christian what would I care about depictions or inspiration being "problematically Pagan".
What I can say is that it's unlikely that much of the parallels (like the Osiris thing) existed before Rome became Christian as over in staunchly monotheist Palestine people wouldn't have taken inspiration like that, while turning multiple gods into one sounds quite reasonable for a people going from polytheism to monotheism.
For modern Christian, I think, the question is "How much did the Romans change". That is, how different was early, pre-Roman, Christianity to what's now considered authoritative, like the Bible, which wasn't brought down from a mountain by Jesus.