thoughts on the Zeitgeist movie

for those who haven't seen it, i encourage you to get a copy of it or watch it online (zeitgeist: the movie and zeitgeist: addendum), on google or on zeitgeistmovie.com.

Zeitgeist, The Movie is a film that was released on Google Video in the spring of 2007 and was created by Peter Joseph. Essentially the video covers three areas of Interest. Part I, entitled "The Greatest Story Ever Told" evaluates Christian beliefs and asserts that it was all taken from pre-existing myths, primarily Egyptian mythology. In Part II, entitled "All The World's a Stage" it goes on to talk about how the US Government knew about the attacks on September 11th, 2001 before hand and that it was a large conspiracy and cover up -- essentially an it was an inside job. Lastly we are told in Part III, entitled "Don't Mind The Men Behind The Curtain", that powerful bankers and world leaders are conspiring for world domination and consolidation of power.

The second film, Zeitgeist: Addendum, attempts to locate the root causes of this pervasive social corruption, while offering a solution. This solution is not based on politics, morality, laws, or any other "establishment" notions of human affairs,but rather on a modern, non-superstitious based understanding of what we are and how we align with nature, to which we are a part. The work advocates a new social system which is updated to present day knowledge, highly influenced by the life long work of Jacque Fresco and The Venus Project.

As with everything else, always remember to discern information you receive and don't just readily believe that because it's in a movie (or documentary) that it's true... having said that, I don't want to tell you that everything contained in the zeitgeist movies are lies, but there are some things that they claim and portray as the truth, without necessarily having factual knowledge of. And just to set the record straight, I'm not opposed to the movies, but in fact, I'm happy that they're out there and so readily available to the public. I think they're both must-sees and I wish that more people would see them.

What I don't understand though, is why the maker of the movies, Peter Joseph, is also using these movies to rant about and debunk religion, especially Christianity. I mean, of course I understand why someone do do that.. but for someone who is uncovering government secrets and their hidden agendas, it doesn't seem too smart to be so obvious about one you have yourself. I mean, all the facts presenting how Christianity enslaves believers really just shows a lack of understanding of what Christianity actually is. Also, the solutions given to counter religion, ironically, are based on concepts and ideologies taken from the New-Age movement. Seriously, is the message to tell people to stop being Christians and become New-Agers?

I don't want to rant about what I don't like about the movies too much either, but I do think it's important to point out that Peter Joseph is doing the same thing with the movies as he's trying to warn us about: influencing us to believe something. While a lot of the things talked about in the movies are good things to know, he's also asking us to reject religion. I wonder why..