Debunking the Movie Zeitgeist

It's time for another edition of Fighting for the Faith. It is Wednesday, July 22, 2009. I think I've officially entered the Twilight Zone. Yeah, I say that because the response I've gotten from yesterday's program, the Rob Bell's so-called gospel presentation, and comparing Christianity to Mithra and Attis and stuff like that, the response I've been getting was not exactly what I expected.

More in a second. Thanks for tuning in. My name is Chris Rosebro. You are listening to Fighting for the Faith, and this is the program that dishes up a daily dose of biblical discernment, the goal of which is to get you to think biblically, to get you to think critically, and compare what people are saying in the name of God to the Word of God.

Christianity, Biblical Discernment, and the Case for Christ

And in today's program, to do some comparative evidential work. Why? Well, there seems to be this belief about Christianity out there that somehow we just blindly believe the Bible story. You know, you ask me how I know Jesus lives.

Well, he lives within my heart. You know, that kind of stuff. And yesterday's program, we talked about Rob Bell. In fact, the entire program was dedicated to Rob Bell's, quote, gospel presentation. And something happened that I did not expect, and kind of showing once again that Rosebro can at times have the tendency to be out of touch with reality or current events or affairs.

There were several people who left comments on my Facebook wall saying, Ah, wow, this explains how to refute the claims of the first part of the movie Zeitgeist. What movie is Zeitgeist? I had no idea.

There was a movie called Zeitgeist out there. Anyway, as it turns out, people were connecting dots, and more than one, connecting dots between Rob Bell's claims and the claims of a movie that was released in 2007 on the Internet, basically a web-based movie release, if you would, a documentary of sorts, entitled Zeitgeist.

And what was funny is that the claims being made by Rob Bell mirror a lot of the claims being made by the movie Zeitgeist. Now, what we're going to do today is we're going to spend some time taking a look at the claims of this movie Zeitgeist.

You know, should Christians stick their head in sands and pray that Jesus cover their eyes and cover their ears and we can't handle this kind of attack? Or is this just a bunch of really poorly put together so-called facts to make a claim that really is not substantiated, can be substantiated whatsoever if you just take the time to look at the evidence?

Believe it or not, there's really, really, really, really, really good compelling evidence that supports the claims of the New Testament. The primary claim being that Jesus Christ was not only a historical person, but that he was none other than the God of the Old Testament, the Jewish Old Testament, Jews being fierce monotheists who were not into astrology or wicca or anything like that, witchcraft.

Instead, they were fierce monotheists and Jesus Christ claimed to be none other than the one true God of the Jews in human flesh. Now, can we substantiate this claim? Well, funny enough, the evidence is all there.

The fact that Jesus Christ was a historical person, lived in Judea, had a ministry in Judea between 30 and 33 A .D., was crucified under the Roman procurator Pontius Pilate, and was raised from the dead are all historical fact.

The evidence is there to support it. The movie Zeitgeist, oddly enough, makes the claim that Jesus did not exist historically. He's a pure mythological character, and the origin of this mythology is none other than astrology.

Yeah, Jesus is supposedly the, quote, Sun God, and he's just the same as Mithra and Attis and Horus and these other deities. Now, we covered that extensively yesterday, but I want you to hear the claims of this movie, and what we're going to focus in on today, for those of you who want to say, well, aren't you going to refute the Attis and Mithras and all that?

Yeah, we did that yesterday. So I'm not going to do the same stuff again, but we're going to attack a different angle on this thing. And again, I've got news for you all. Christianity has not engaged in some kind of a cover-up or a conspiracy, and tried to suppress the facts about Jesus Christ, and killed people who knew the truth that he didn't really exist.

Nothing could be further from the truth. And just a common-sensed, unbiased look at the evidence will lead you to the conclusion that Jesus Christ, not only did the biographies in the New Testament give us an accurate picture of him, that they're spot-on, that he was a historical person, and he claimed to be none other than God in human flesh, and that three days after he was crucified, he was raised from the dead.

Yeah, this is not mythology. This is history. And so we'll get into that a little bit today. So, you know, funny. So this is kind of a follow-up. But then again, here's the question. You know, this whole Zeitgeist movie, just so you know, the movie itself is rather interesting.

Let me pull my notes up out on this thing. You can view it online. There's nothing to be afraid of, of this movie, really. If you can think critically and are willing to take a look at the real evidence, you don't have anything to worry about this thing.

But here's basically what this thing does. It starts out with an attack on Christianity. I have to warn you, there's some bad language in it, because they quote George Carlin uncensored. And then it moves to an attack on the U .S. government, and then on to capitalism.

So my take on the whole Zeitgeist movie, what we're really dealing with here is this is a propaganda film. And funny enough, the themes of this really are Marxist. And they're classical Marxists at that.

Remember, Marxism teaches that religion is the opiate of the masses. And so they're apparently trying to wake everybody up. And so they attack Christianity with really baseless facts. It's ridiculous.

It's almost embarrassingly bad. And then they make the claim that the U .S. government is responsible for the attack on the World Trade Center, the 9 -11 attacks back in 2001. And then they make the claim that capitalism, that's right, that a group of secret evil international bankers are purposely trying to wage wars in order to make profits.

And they want wars to perpetuate unendingly. And so what's the solution to all of this? You always listen to, OK, what are you trying to sell me? So here they've deconstructed Christianity, the U .S. Republican principles, and capitalism.

So what are we supposed to replace it with? Well, solidarity, this concept that we are one, the power of love, and losing individual identity and understanding that we are all interconnected in solidarity.

That's the end point of this thing. My conclusion, what we're dealing with here in the movie Zeitgeist, is none other than just Marxist propaganda. So which leads to the question, why does Rob Bell sound like these guys?

But that whole other question. But again, it's just really bad journalism. Just wretchedly bad. And it's such selective cherry-picking of evidence and concepts and stuff that you sit in there going, how would anybody believe this?

The reality, though, is it doesn't surprise me that anybody would believe this thing. And the irony of the whole thing is that they talk about how the media and the U .S. government have been purposely manipulating the masses using fear.

That's right, fear to control and manipulate you. And I'm watching this thing going, wait a second, aren't the people who put this movie together employing fear in order to manipulate the feelings and thoughts of the people watching this movie?

Again, it's one of those things where the thing I've learned is that people who scream the loudest against somebody else's sins, and don't talk about grace and mercy and the forgiveness of sins, but are pointing a finger at somebody and saying, you are a sinner and you're using fear, that in reality I think what they're doing is they're engaging in projection.

They're projecting their own shortcomings and their own agenda on their supposed enemies. Anyway, that was the kind of juicy, relishy irony of the whole thing. So with that being said, what we're going to do right now is I want to play for you the audio from part one of the movie Zeitgeist.

I want you to hear it in context. Again, the claims in here are outrageous, and if you listen to yesterday's program, you already have a foundation for refuting the early claims in here. But we're going to listen to this all the way through to where they get to the punchline.

What's the punchline? Where are they going with this? That Jesus Christ was not a historical person who existed. He's a mythological character of the astrological zodiac, and like I said, I probably will interrupt this along the way, but I want you to hear this, because these attacks on Christianity are not new.

We don't need to go and get our pitchforks and stab the people to death or pray for the return of the Inquisition and the Rack so that we can take these blasphemous heretics and torture them like they deserve.

No, that's not even remotely the Christian response. Yet that's their characterization of Christians. Instead, what do we do? We just soberly, carefully, almost unemotionally, if you would, go and look at the evidence and test the claims.

We have nothing to fear from an examination of the evidence. But then again, they try to present the evidence in here, and they do such a terrible job. We'll have to talk about it later. So we'll be playing a little bit, actually, from a chapter of Lee Strobel's book, another book by Lee Strobel called The Case for Christ.

Now you'll notice I highly praised Lee Strobel's book The Case for the Real Jesus, and just a fantastic introductory-level book into the case and the evidence in support of Christ and Christianity is the book The Case for Christ.

You can pick it up as a paperback for like six bucks. It's a really cheap book, and it's a fantastic piece of journalism. Lee Strobel was not born and raised as a Christian. He was an atheist-agnostic reporter in Chicago, and his wife became a Christian, and he decided that he was going to set out to take a look at the evidence, really more or less to disprove Christianity so that he can free his wife from this stupid religion, and ended up really taking a hard look at the evidence, and as a result of it, became a Christian.

It's funny. The history of Christianity is filled with stories of men like Strobel who have started out to disprove Christianity, and lo and behold, when they took an honest look at the real evidence, they ended up becoming Christians.

So I recommend that if you haven't read the book. One of the things I love about it is that he interviews a lot of really good scholars, and they handle the scholarly evidence straight up, and it deals with the eyewitness testimony, the corroborating evidence from outside of Christian sources, from historians that are both Jewish and Greek and Roman, and it also deals with Jesus' fulfilled prophecies.

I mean, there's some really, really good stuff in the book, and if you're looking for just a good layman, easy to understand from a layman's point of view, introduction to the case for defending the Christian faith, this is a fantastic work, and I can't recommend it more highly enough.

I mean, I've read a lot of apologetic books out there, and this is probably one of the easiest to grasp, and I like the way the story is written around the evidence. It's just fantastic. Alright, with that being the case, we're going to dive into the movie Zeitgeist, and let's listen to their claims.

You'll recognize some of these from Rob Bell from yesterday, but here we go.

This is the sun. As far back as 10 ,000 B .C., history is abundant with carvings and writings reflecting people's respect and adoration for this object. And it is simple to understand why, as every morning the sun would rise, bringing vision, warmth, and security, saving man from the cold, blind, predator-filled darkness of night.

Without it, the cultures understood, the crops would not grow, and life on the planet would not survive. These realities made the sun the most adored object of all time. 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 full moons. They in turn cataloged celestial groups into what we know today as constellations.

This is the cross of the zodiac, one of the oldest conceptual images in human history. It reflects the sun as it figuratively passes through the 12 major constellations over the course of a year. It also reflects the 12 months of the year, the four seasons, and the solstices and equinoxes.

The term zodiac relates to the fact that constellations were anthropomorphized, or personified, as figures or animals. In other words, the early civilizations did not just follow the sun and stars, they personified them with elaborate myths involving their movements and relationships.

Okay, I'm going to point something out here. I mean, so far, this is nothing profound or mysterious. I mean, he's just giving an explanation for where we get the signs of the zodiac from. Now, real quick question.

Can you, or any of you listening who are skeptics, and you're tuned into Fighting for the Faith because you want to hear what this raging, raving, obviously one-toothed imbecile has to say about Christianity and disproving the movie Zeitgeist.

Where in the Bible is the zodiac clearly taught? Where in the Bible is astrology taught in a way that it's basically supported, its tenets are supported? The answer to the question is, it isn't. There is no teaching in the scriptures that tell us these same stories, or tell us anything about the stars and the zodiac or whatever.

There's no direct correlation between the Judeo-Christian scriptures, the Bible, and the teachings of the zodiac. In fact, astrology is a competing truth claim to both Judaism and Christianity. And I point this out because throughout all of history, throughout both their histories, astrology and Christianity have, and astrology and Judaism, have not been partners.

They have not been close cousins to each other or anything like that. And nowhere in the Bible is astrology taught. Now this is important because what this guy in this movie here is doing, he's going to try to pull a whole bunch of verses out of context, keying in on particular words, and then reading into the biblical text that he's ripped out of context, these astrological, astro-theological concepts.

But they're not explicitly taught. In fact, you would have to believe in the Bible code, the astro-theological quote Bible code, and need to pull out your astro-theological decoder ring, and possibly even spy glasses, in order to correctly read the scriptures in such a way that you can divine or unlock and decipher the astro-theological meanings in it.

We continue. The sun, with its life-giving and saving qualities, was personified as a representative of the unseen creator or God, God's son, the light of the world, the savior of humankind.

Okay, this is an interesting play on words. Notice that he specifically said God's son. Now, the funny thing is that this is just a really dumb, dumb trick in English. The reason why is because the two words, son and son, phonetically sound the same, but they are spelled differently.

This is a funny little parlor game. Hang on a second here. I'm going to do a little work in the Greek here. Son. Okay. However, for instance, in the Greek, let me take this to the New Testament, to the Gospels.

Here we go. Okay. In the Greek, the word for son is wios. Okay? However, and son, what I'm referring to, that would be son as far as my son Joshua, or I am the son of Raymond. So the term son in the Greek is wios.

Yet the term for the sun, that would be that big ball of fire up in the sky, is helios. Wios and helios don't even remotely sound alike. So here in this movie, the Zeitgeist, this guy is saying the Zodiac represents the sun, and it's God's son.

You see, doesn't that sound a lot like the, quote, son of God? But it's stupid. It's stupid because son and son are two different words. They just sound alike.

Likewise, the 12 constellations represented places of travel for God's son, and were identified by names, usually representing elements of nature that happened during that period of time. For example, Aquarius, the water bearer who brings the spring rains.

This is Horus. He is the sun god of Egypt of around 3000 B .C.

Okay, now, we're now going to get into the supposed parallels between Jesus Christ, the God's son, get it? And Horus, the Egyptian sun god, the Egyptian god of the sun. You see, there's...

He is the sun, anthropomorphized, and his life is a series of allegorical myths involving the sun's movement in the sky. From the ancient hieroglyphics in Egypt, we know much about the solar messiah. For instance, Horus, being the sun or the light, had an enemy known as Set, and Set was the personification of the darkness or night.

And, metaphorically speaking, every morning, Horus would win the battle against Set, while in the evening, Set would conquer Horus and send him into the underworld. It is important to note that dark versus light, or good versus evil, is one of the most ubiquitous mythological dualities ever known, and is still expressed on many levels to this day.

Broadly speaking, the story of Horus is as follows. Horus was born on December 25th of the virgin Isis, Mary. Okay, I've got to stop here for a second here.

Does the Bible teach that Jesus Christ was born on December 25th? Answer, no. It doesn't even tell us when Jesus Christ is born. It does tell us the events surrounding his birth. In fact, when you read the New Testament biographies, because that's what they are, they're biographies, we find out that Jesus Christ was born when Caesar Augustus basically took a census.

In fact, let me read from the Gospel of Luke. Let me pull this up here. Here's the difference between the Christian claims regarding Christ and these mythological deities. You heard the story of Horus and Set, right?

Well, these two gods explain why there's sun during the day and why it's dark at night, because it's the battle of light versus darkness. It's like mythology, if you understand the story of Baal. Baal was claimed to be locked in the underworld, and he was the god who brought rain.

And so when there was no rain, he was defeated and swallowed up by a competing god. And then when he was set free, you could tell he was set free because it was raining again. See? That's the thing in common with all of these old mythologies.

They're not grounded in a specific time in history. It's a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. There was this battle between good and evil, between light and darkness. And you see what I'm saying?

Yet the New Testament documents and the New Testament biographies are very, very different, okay? And so if we go to Luke's biography—by the way, Luke is kind of like a journalist of his time. He builds his gospel by interviewing the eyewitnesses to the events.

Rather than it being a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, in order to explain the weather patterns and the different seasons of the year, the summer solstice and that kind of stuff, we read, In those days, Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.

This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was the governor of Syria. And everyone went to his own town to register. You see what's going on here? I just want to point that out. So, a big difference.

So, does it say when Jesus was born? No. We don't know when Jesus was born. In fact, I've seen pretty credible evidence that he wasn't born in December at all, probably born in late June or early July.

Yes, he was born of a virgin, literally. Hang on a second here. I want to do a little bit of work on Horus here. Okay, let's see what we've got here. Horus was told by his mother Isis to protect the people of Egypt.

He's the sun god, Egyptian deity associated with the sun. Horus was said to be the sky. I wonder if it says anything about him virgin. Hang on a second here. Virgin, it doesn't say. I'm looking up references that talk about Horus.

It doesn't say anything about him being born of a virgin. Now, that doesn't mean that he wasn't. Who cares? The thing is, hang on a second. Watch this little slip here.

His birth was accompanied by a star in the east, and upon his birth he was adored by three kings.

By the way, does the Bible say that three kings came from the east? Three kings.

We'll talk about the Magi in a minute. At the age of 12, he was a prodigal child teacher. At the age of 30, he was baptized by a figure known as Anup, and thus began his ministry. Horus had 12 disciples he traveled about with, performing miracles such as healing the sick and walking on water.

Horus was known by many gestural names such as the Truth, the Light, God's Anointed Son, the Good Shepherd, the Lamb of God, and many others. Now, this is all fine and dandy.

The question I have is, first of all, what's the primary documentation to support these claims or these so-called parallels? But the other thing is, has anyone ever met Horus? Do we know where, you know, I'm serious.

You know, where is this Horus guy? I mean, they show a picture of the deity Horus, and he looks like he's got a falcon head, and then he's got a big sun disk on his head. This doesn't look like anybody I know.

When did he live? When did Horus actually live? Again, there's a huge difference between a mythology and the claims regarding the parallels here. By the way, if you want a more extensive rebuttal of this issue, listen to Fighting for the Faith from yesterday.

That would be Fighting for the Faith from July 21st on deconstructing Rob Bell's false gospel. We go into depth regarding the fact that all these claims regarding the so-called parallels between Christianity and these mystery religions, really when you hold it up to the light of scrutiny, for instance, the dating on all these is way, way off.

You know, Attis, Mithras, late. They come after Christianity is already formed. This Horus deity, you know, again, I'd want to see the documentary evidence, but more importantly, I'd like to know who met this guy.

See, Jesus is really different because the claims regarding Jesus is that he was an actual person in time and space history at a specific region in the world during a particular time of the Roman Empire.

This wasn't a long time ago in the mists of foggy history. This was a very specific time, but we continue.

After being betrayed by Typhon, Horus was crucified, buried for three days, and thus resurrected.

Again, where does it say that Horus was crucified? By the way, crucifixion, I don't think it really came around until about 600 BC. Just, you know, so I would challenge that claim because crucifixion as a form of execution didn't, I mean, here they're saying Horus, these are attributes of him from 3000 BC, yet crucifixion didn't exist as a form of capital punishment until the Romans really perfected it.

Well, they perfected it, but really until about, what, 600 BC? I think that's the earliest accounts we have of it.

These attributes of Horus, whether original or not, seem to permeate many cultures of the world for many other gods are found to have the same general mythological structure.

Attis, Aphrygia. Okay, now, pointing this out, he's mentioning Attis, Aphrygia. Now, keep in mind, we already went through the evidence on this yesterday. The Attis cult really doesn't even take root in the Roman Empire until late, I mean, we're talking late, mid to late 2nd century, and really doesn't even get growing until the 4th century, long after Christianity has taken hold.

One of the Virgin Nana on December 25th, crucified, placed in a tomb, and after three days was resurrected. Krishna of India, born of the Virgin Devaki, with a star in the east, signaling his coming. He performed miracles with his disciples, and upon his death, was resurrected.

Dionysus of Greece, born of a virgin on December 25th, was a traveling teacher who performed miracles, such as turning water into wine. He was referred to as the King of Kings, God's only begotten son.

Again, who's met Attis? Any of you out there, do you have any eyewitness testimony regarding Attis, Dionysus, Krishna? Just, you know, again, the Christian biographies take on a completely different element, because these took place in actual history.

Alpha and Omega, and many others. And, upon his death, he was resurrected.

Mithra of Persia. Okay, we already proved yesterday regarding Mithra, they probably ripped off a lot of their ideas directly from Christianity, but listen. Born of a virgin on December 25th. No, he wasn't.

Mithra was born from a rock. Already we've got a problem here. This guy is just throwing out, quote, facts, and claiming all of these parallels, but again, not really doing any true comparative work here between these different mythologies.

This is just a surface treatment of so-called supposed parallels. And already, some of the facts are spurious. Mithra was never born of a virgin. He was born from a rock, fully grown and naked and wearing a cap.

Okay, again, this is false information, because there is no record of the death of Mithras. None, whatsoever. So, he was not born of a virgin, he did not die and was dead for three days. This is just patently false information.

Again, listen to yesterday's program. Three days and thus resurrected. No, he never died and he was never resurrected. So, you see, already we've got a problem. This guy is being real flippant with these so-called parallel facts, and I don't even think he's really doing Attis, Mithras, Dionysus, Krishna, and Horus even really do justice at all.

And what I would recommend you do, listen to yesterday's program and get a copy of Lee Strobel's The Case for the Real Jesus and read the chapter on Challenge No. 4 to the Christian Faith, Christianity's Belief about Jesus, where they copied from pagan religions.

Again, it's not as if we've never heard of these arguments before. They've been around for a long, long time, and they've been discredited and debunked. In fact, they were discredited and debunked, you know, decades ago.

Decades ago. And yet, this 2007 movie, Zeitgeist, we're already finding factual errors in his, quote, presentation. We're going to take our first break, and when we come back, we're going to continue with the movie Zeitgeist and their really bad claims regarding Christianity, which really are not turning out to be very good facts at all.

In fact, bad scholarship, bad evidence. And if you disagree with me, I don't care. Go and get the evidence. Let's talk. Let's talk. Read the chapter in Lee Strobel's book, The Case for the Real Jesus, and bring your scholars to disprove the scholarship that is presented there.

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Now, we're working our way through the movie, part one of the movie, Zeitgeist, to see if we should all be rattling in our boots and shaking and quivering and going, oh, no, Christianity isn't true because they said that Mithra was born of a virgin.

See, already the scholarship here is questionable because Mithra wasn't born of a virgin, born from a rock, was dead for three days. Really, where does it say that? All the Mithra scholars are pretty much agreed.

That doesn't say anything about Mithra dying, let alone rising from the dead. So, you know, here's the deal. They're getting it wrong on the facts regarding Mithras. We already know that the cult of Attis was not, didn't predate Christianity.

In fact, it was more than a century and a half after Christianity. So why should we believe then again? Yeah, anyway, we'll continue with the movie here because their claims, you know, they seem to be so formidable, but they're not.

He was also referred to as the truth, the light, and many others. Interestingly, the sacred day of worship of Mithra was Sunday.

No, you mean there was a pagan religion that worshiped on Sunday? No! What are the chances of that? One in seven, by the way.

The fact of the matter is there are numerous saviors from different periods from all over the world which subscribe to these general characters.

You know what's funny is there were numerous saviors. You know, funny enough, Christianity is very unique. Which of the saviors of these dying and rising so-called deities was their death a sacrifice for the sins of the world offering forgiveness for free to all of humanity?

None of these dying, so-called dying gods were there propitiating the wrath of God. And nor was their deaths vicarious for their followers. I just want to point that out.

The question remains, why these attributes?

Oh no, there's a question mark on the screen. The question remains, why these attributes? Again, you're reading way too much into these surface attributes that already we've disproven some of these parallels already.

I'm questioning your scholarship of the point here, Mr. Zeitgeist.

Why the virgin birth on December 25th? Oh no, not the... A dad for three days and the inevitable resurrection.

Why 12 disciples or followers? Notice the intense dramatic music. But the thing is that he hasn't made his point at all. Showing similarities doesn't prove a connection. Again, the correct logical fallacy that this is called is post hoc ergo propter hoc.

That would be after this, therefore, because of this. It's a logical fallacy. My wife calls that logical fallacy... How does she call it? She calls it post hoc poppycock.

To find out, let's examine the most recent of the solar messiahs. Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary on December 25th.

No, no, no. Jesus Christ was not born of the Virgin Mary on December 25th. Yes, he was born of the Virgin Mary, and truly she was a virgin.

Bethlehem. His birth was announced by a star in the east, which three kings or magi followed...

No, there were not three kings. Hang on a second. I want to talk about the magi here for a second. Just do a little bit of biblical work here, according to the New Testament biographies. I mean, this guy is making claims about Christianity.