Peter Joseph-The Zeitgeist Movie- WRETCHED!

The Zeitgeist Movie

Review

This film was made a few years ago and the guy who made it, Peter Joseph has gone on to make three more films. I met Peter Joseph’s ex-girlfriend recently. The Zeitgeist Movement?  Those are these people that want to save the environment by putting end to money or something to that effect. This is an extremely dull and laborious film to review.  I find the Zeitgeist movie itself boring and difficult to sit through.  The first part of the film claims that Jesus never existed and was kind of an astrological metaphor representing the sun.  Here is a link to an excellent and sort of funny rebuttal of the claims of part 1.

http://www.publicchristianity.com/Videos/zeitgeist.html

If I’ve got my own facts straight, a Christian webpage contacted Australian scholar of ancient history Chris Forbes about the film.  Chris Forbes rips Peter Joseph a new asshole on factual inaccuracies presented in the film.  It gets pretty brutal.  Even with an undergrad degree in the related field of literature it looked off to me. Chris Forbes goes through all of the films factual errors (Dionysus was not born of a virgin, all of that) and points out that you really shouldn’t believe everything that you see on YouTube.  The film mentions Gnostic Christianity.  A professor of mine in college warned me that Gnostic Christianity attracts “mad people and frauds”.  No joke!  You can slap Peter Joseph on the list!

            Part 2 is even worse.  Have you ever seen Loose Change or other 911 truther material on-line?  If you did, don’t bother watching this film.  It is very much the same kind of material.  Part 3 apparently deals with the Federal Reserve, but I’d be more inclined to take a look at a less discredited source on things, Congressman Ron Paul writes extensively the subject of the Federal Reserve, for example.

            Peter Joseph has developed a cottage industry out of marketing conspiracy theory materials like this, that much appears true.  There are plenty of crackpots and frauds floating around on-line.  Who can possibly sit through an entire documentary when you know the documentarian is largely discredited?  There’s no way I can sit through this thing in its entirety, let alone the three sequels.