God's warriors
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No dobs, I haven't checked out Zeitgeist yet, looks to be an hour and a half long, and time is a precious commodity for me these days...but I do plan on checking it out soon, as it seems to be causing a bit of a stir.
From a cursory glance, this sounds like a brand new theory: the idea that Jesus' story has been told 25 times in different ancient civilizations, that Judao-Christianity isn't the only source of this god-story. I find this hard to believe since the nature of God and particularly his son Jesus runs contrary to the capricious, often malevolent and often flawed nature of every other god I've researched (according to the Bhagavadgita and other sources of Hindu theology), Buddhist teachings, Celtic pagan history, Mesopotamian history, Mayan tradition, etc. etc.
C.S. Lewis talks about the stories and traditions in non-Christian faiths that bear similarities to Christianity, even if the analogies always break down at some point. Some of these stories bear striking resemblance to the story of Christ and even other Biblical events or parables. Lewis calls these stories/legends "good dreams"...As in they were close to tapping into some truth, that they found some vague evidence of the true God and reported on it. These stories never went the entire distance however. All of them were eventually discredited or hampered by conventions like pantheism, human sacrifice, earth, animal or ancestor worship, reincarnation, and so on. Thus, the similarities end here.
Like I said though, I'll have a good look at Zeitgeist, hopefully this week, and will let you know what my thoughts are.