Zeitgeist Movie

Yesterday I decided I would watch the Zeitgeist movie after reading a post about the movie. I had to clear some time off my schedule to watch the on-line movie because it is almost two hours long. What did I think? I’m glad you asked. I will give a general summary and then share my thoughts.
The movie is broken down into three parts, or theories, on Christianity, 9/11, and International Banking and the Federal Reserve Bank. Be warned these are theories steeped in conspiracy. In order to make it through, I had to be VERY open-minded to even make it past the first half hour (if you do watch it, skip the first seven or so minutes, its just instrumental, doesn’t add to the movie at all).
Act 1: “The Greastest Story Ever Told”
The movie suggests that Christianity, the Bible, and Jesus are all based on astrology, Egyptian religious figures, and several other pagan “potpourri”. The story of Jesus’ miracle birth is described as being a plagarized story from any number of religious gods ie. Horus, Mythra, Krishna, etc. All of these and several others according to the movie had similar miraculous occurances surrounding their birth, life, deaths, and in most cases resurrection. Also, the movie suggests that Jesus never existed and all the stories about him are in fact about astrology. The sun, which is central to ancient astrology, is equated to the story of Jesus in many facets. One of those facets is Jesus is literally God’s Sun. When the sun starts to go through the winter months, food supplies dry up and freeze, and “death” starts to the creep in. This time is a desolate time for ancients and  they look to the sun to start ushering in warmer climates so that “life” can begin again. Miraculously , on December 25th the sun actually starts this climb back higher into the sky. So Jesus, God’s Sun, is born on this date (every year). During this time three stars from Orion’s belt line up with the some sun’s birth. The name of these three stars you may be asking? The Three Kings (Wise Men). There are too many other suggestions made by the film dealing with Christianity, Jesus, and the like, to be made here. Watch if you want to see the others. My thoughts on this act. First, there is very little  support for the claims made (and the other Acts). There is plenty of theory but very little facts presented. The sources on the movie home page are very hodge podge and not very academically recognized. My first thoughts were that the facts presented seem very “cut and paste”. Take a little from here and a little from here and Voila! here is the answer to life’s questions. I believe that this would make good discussion starters but little else.
Act 2: “The 9/11 Myth”. The movie expounds on some thoughts that have circulated since Sept. 11th. Were the Bush’s conspiring with the bin Laden’s over several years? Were the WTC buildings 1, 2, and 7 detonated by explosives and not by planes? Building 7 was not even hit by a plane, why did it fall? The 9/11 commission seems to glide over important facts and in fact covers some up, does it? Of the three acts in this movie, this one has spirred my curiousity the most. I will comment further after I have spent some time investigating. Of course it is too over the top. If the movie creators could have spent some more time on this act and left the other two out completely, I would take it more seriously. The acts don’t really go together and I think this makes me less certain of the claims made.
Act 3: “The Men Behind The Curtain”. This has been in conspiracy theories archives for a long time. I remember being real young hearing about “One World Goverments”, “Implants by governments to enslave their societies”, etc. I think that again facts are too scarce for true academic thought. I think it would make a pretty good book plot. If you could take what Dan Brown does and mix just enough facts with a huge portion of fantasy and sell a million copies.
If I had to guess, this movie was made by people that have been hurt by the church and the federal government. I don’t know for sure what led the producers to make such a movie. I can guess, but that is all it will be. Watch the movie if you want to. Don’t watch the movie if don’t want to. Either way, no harm done but be warned, again, these are theories by those that believe in conspiracies. You must consider the source.