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Permalink Reply by Joseph P on June 17, 2011 at 11:16pm

Yeah, there are good points, but they're mixed in with an equal dose of pure nonsense.  It's more effort than it's worth to try to figure out which bits are which.  You're better off going to another source that isn't full of it.

Permalink Reply by A3Kr0n on June 18, 2011 at 5:40am

I've thought of it as a mixed bag for years now. Some things seem OK, but others I can't find reference to. Some sites debunk it, but I don't know the sources there, either. The other zeiteist parts of the movie get really strange. It's almost like every conspiracy theory wrapped into one movie.

Permalink Reply by A3Kr0n on June 18, 2011 at 8:41am

Mike, I'll do that. Right now I'm reading

Tim Callahan’s Critique of the Movie Zeitgeist — The Greatest Story...

By John W. Loftus at 2/25/2009

Permalink Reply by A3Kr0n on June 18, 2011 at 8:43am

I found the full movie easily on YouTube.

Thanks!

Permalink Reply by D.O.S on July 15, 2011 at 11:49am

I second that. The premise that Christ is a myth is most likely true but his take on it is not very scholarly. Some things he oversimplifies and others are so twisted and convoluted that its worthless.

 

I recommend a combination of other sources that are more scholarly and more easily followed.

Read Bart Ehrman and Robert M. Price

Watch The God Who Wasn't There

These source do give citations you can follow-up and verify.