http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com scared the shit out of me. There is a thread in Paranoia for the movie, but I wanted to get the take of people who frequent the Philosophy board. On the first part anyways.
here is a summery (that I pulled from a blog which I think accurately describes the film) for those that have not watched the film.
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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 plagiarized 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).
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What I wanted to start a discussion on was not the accuracy, but the "plausibility" of the statements that are put forth. Could Christianity be just plagiarized ancient horoscope worship? It would make a lot of sense to me if it were... The part about the "Jesus Fish" being representative of the astrological sign of Pices, and the quote from the bible (by Jesus) about the next messiah that Christians should follow will come bearing water (Aquarius)
It's been a few weeks since I have seen the move so please forgive any missed quotes or misunderstood messages.