zeitgeist part 1 reaction paper

7/27/2019 Zeitgeist Part 1 Reaction Paper

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Bhen Cosme Bryan B. Janier

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Zeitgeist Part One: The Greatest Story Ever Told

“The Greatest Story Ever Told” presents historical data

relating to the astronomical/astrological origins of the

Jewish-Christian theology and other religions as well. It

states that these respective stories, beliefs & traditions are

really an adaptation-extension of prior Pagan beliefs. In

other words, evidence shows that these modern religions are

really composites of earlier religions with their stories and

symbolisms “borrowed” or “plagiarised” as the new traditions

evolved. Of course, believers of theistic religions have a

inherent, self-preserving interest to disagree with such a

notion, for it brings their religion out of the context of the

supernatural and novel - and into the context of a singular,

serial intellectual evolution of information where many

religions begin to share a common symbolic and literary basis.

Regardless, this section of the 3 part movie isn’t really

about whether “God” exists or any such issue - it is about the

firm reality that religions have been borrowing and building

upon each other, while the central origin of these theologies

almost always comes back to the ancient people’s fascination

to the sun.

At the start of the movie, it talks about the ancient

people’s adoration and respect to the sun. This is because the

sun brings light, warmth and crop growth to the civilizations.

Likewise, they were also very aware of the stars. The tracking

of the stars allowed them to recognize and anticipate events

which occurred over long periods of time, such as eclipses and



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full moons. They in turn catalogued celestial groups into what

we know today as constellations. The sun and other celestial

bodies were personified with myths involving their movements

and relationships. One of their focuses was the sun and the

story of the sun became highly developed over a period of

thousands of years, possibly tens of thousands or more. The

observations of the sun and its daily, monthly, annual and

processional movements have led to complex myths in which it

was personified as a god.

Horus, the sun god of Egypt was described. He was born on

December 25th, born of a virgin mother, and his birth was

signalled by a star in the east etc. It shows the striking

similarities between Horus and the other gods of religions,

namely Jesus Christ of Christianity. The birth sequence of

Jesus is explained to be completely astronomical. Sirius is

the brightest sky in the night sky which on December 24th,

aligns with the three brightest stars in Orion’s Belt. The

“Three Kings” and Sirius all point to the place of the sunrise

on December 25th. So the story goes that Sirius, “The Star in

the East” is followed by the “Three Kings” which is the

ancient name of Orion’s Belt. This is in order to locate the

sunrise or “Jesus”. The movie then goes on to explain that all

the other characteristics of Jesus’ and other god’s lives have

an astrological and astronomical explanation.

The movie concludes with belief that it was the political

establishments that sought to historicize the Jesus figure for

social control. And for over the next 1,000 years, the Vatican

maintained a political stranglehold on all of Europe, leading

to such joyous periods as the Dark Ages, along with

enlightening events such as the Crusades, and the Inquisition.



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Christianity, along with all other related theologies, is an

historical fraud. These religions now serve to detach the

species from the natural world and likewise each other. They

support blind submission to authority. They reduce human

responsibility to the effect that “God” controls everything,

and in turn awful crimes can be justified in the name of a

Divine Pursuit. And most critically, it empowers the political

establishment, who have been using the myth to manipulate and

control societies. Ending with a quote that “The religious

myth is the most powerful device ever created, and serves as

the psychological soil upon which other myths can flourish. “

I enjoyed the movie even though it was only 30 minutes.

To anyone watching it, you have to plough through the first

bit, with the sounds and weird coloured lights. However there

are some holes in the facts and some of them are merely

baseless allegations given by the movie. For one, the narrator

tells us that Egyptian ideas such as Baptism, Afterlife, Final

Judgment, Virgin Birth, Death and Resurrection, Crucifixion,

Holy Communion, Easter and Christmas etc are the foundation of

Christian and Jewish beliefs. However, this are all of which

are only Christian concepts, not Jewish. Continuing on with

the 'no evidence' theme, he failed to substantiate the claim

that these are Egyptian traditions in any way.



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In a nutshell, this movie is a good eye opener for people who

have been so blinded by religious teachings that they can’t

look after themselves and search for the truth. I long for

movies like this. Being a free thinker, I was able to connect

emotionally with this movie. I think it’s time that we all

stand up for ourselves and start questioning the information

that has been so forcefully fed to us since birth. This movie

might not be true, but the only real source of truth is us. We

have to find out for ourselves what the truth really is.

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