How many people have seen the movie "Zeitgeist"?

I've seen it five times myself. It is horrible, I agree. I remember settling down a few years ago and picking apart every single sentence in the first section (the one on religion). I found 45 errors/inaccuracies/lies in just the first 5 minutes. Frankly, Expelled:No Intelligence Allowed was probably better researched and more honest, and that's saying quite a lot.

Charles François Dupuis published his 'Origine de tous les Cultes ou La Religion universelle' (Origin of all the cults or the universal religion) in 1774. The responses were so hostile that he burned most of his own work himself.

Robert Taylor published his 'Diegesis' (1829), in which he demonstrated the original pagan mythical origins of Jesus, and as a result he ended up in prison. There he wrote:

"When the simple fact of the existence of such a man as Jesus Christ is questioned, it is usual for the modern advocates of Christianity to shelter themselves from all contemplation of the historical difficulties of the case, by assuming his existence to be incontrovertible, and that nothing short of idiocy of understanding, or an intention to irritate and annoy, rather than to seek or communicate information, could prompt any man to moot a doubt on the subject . . . that none but reckless desperates or downright fools could ever have held the human existence of Christ as problematical."

Bruno Bauer, 1841, as a result of his claims that Jesus is a myth, going back to the greek philosophy/stoic mysticism he recognized in Paul, was completely ridiculed and dismissed from his office (professor of theology).

David Friedrich Strauss, after he published his 'The life of Jesus critically examined' (1860) which showed the completely mythical character of the gospels and Jesus and dismissed the stories about miracles as supernatural and false, was prohibited from continuing his profession, he could forget about making a career. He wrote in 1870 that with the modern criticism of the bible an end had come to christianity as people had known it until then:

"We can no longer believe this absurd nonsense, my conviction is . . . if we would not try to twist and explain away the facts . . . if we were to speak as honest, upright men, then we must confess: We are no longer Christians."

Ernest Renan, 1863, 'Das Leben Jesu'. Catholic priest wrote this novel, influenced by the German critics like Strauss. This cost him his job.

Gerald Massey, 1886, 'Historical Jesus and Mythical Christ'. 1907, 'Ancient Egypt-The Light of the World'. The very erudite Massey claimed that ‘The "Christian scheme" in the New Testament is a fraud, founded on a fable in the Old’. He also said that 'ignorance is the devil and science is the savior of mankind'. Massey is posthumously still falsely denied as 'nonsense'/'refuted' by dishonest christian 'historians' and apologists and their campaign against 'the Jesus myth'.

In 1907 Pope Pius X condemned the Modernists who dared to enter the framework of the Church: In 1910 an anti-Modernist oath was sworn.

After Arthur Drews wrote his 'Christ myth' in 1910 (Westminster College-Oxford Classics in the Study of Religion), which completely refuted the historical Jesus, the response was so gross and hostile, best described by prof. Chester Charlton McCown:

"The idiocy--no other word is strong enough--of his (Drews') opponents, especially the conservatives, makes one wonder that Christianity still lives."

Alvin Boyd Kuhn published his 'Shadow of the third century; a revaluation of Christianity' in 1944, in which he exposed the use and abuse of pagan sources by means of fraud, lies, deceit and violence by the Church. Ofcourse he was completely ridiculed - and with success: who still knows this guy?

Yep. I thought it was crap. I couldn't believe how many people thought it was awesome and acted like it was going to "debunk Christianity" once and for all. Perfect example that you do not actually have to be skeptical or rational to be an atheist.

Yes.

It's pretty weak.

There actually is a good basis for the Horus-Jesus thing, but everything else was very poor.

Yes, all complete lies.

i saw it.