Responding (Again) to Claims Derived from the 2007 Movie Zeitgeist

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  • Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
  • Responding to claims from the 2007 movie Zeitgeist about an ostensible template for a “solar messiah” divine profile of which Jesus is supposed to be just another example.

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  • @brettandersson3206
    @brettandersson3206 Рік тому +25

    This was the nightmare of a video i unfortunately commented on, and likely why you got dragged into it. Thanks again for seemingly infinite patience and another wonderful video.

    • @shartyronald3989
      @shartyronald3989 Рік тому

      The Bible is just another book made to control. There are hundreds of IDENTICAL story’s to the Bible. For example, Krishna of India was Crucified in 1200 B.C (and yes crucifixion was a thing during that time) Krishna was also born of a virgin, he also performed miracles such as curing the sick and healing the blind and deaf, he was in some story’s resurrected 3 days later, Shepherd’s and angels were present during his birth and gifted him gold and such, his father was a carpenter, his disciples gave him the name Jeezus, Kirshna was also the second in the trinity which was the father the son and the Holy Ghost, He was also called the alpha and omega and he raised the dead.- Sounds familiar. This is one religion and god that is identical to the Bible and Jesus, Remember that this is over 1000 years before Jesus and there is many more just like it.

    • @huttj509
      @huttj509 Рік тому +9

      @@shartyronald3989 What is your source for the crucifixion claim? Because everything I'm finding involves a hunter shooting Krishna in the foot.

    • @CharlesPayet
      @CharlesPayet Рік тому +8

      @@shartyronald3989 citations or get that junk outta here.

    • @MarcosElMalo2
      @MarcosElMalo2 5 місяців тому +1

      @@shartyronald3989Fake picture guy.

  • @iamfiefo
    @iamfiefo 9 місяців тому +11

    Ah, I remember Zeitgeist. Believed it for a long time until I actually looked things up for myself.

  • @NielMalan
    @NielMalan Рік тому +24

    December 25th was not a date on any calendar in use by any of the civilizations mentioned, nor can December 25th be extrapolated to any of these calendars.

    • @gamer7916
      @gamer7916 Рік тому +6

      Actually it can be extrapolated to any calendar very easily. December 25 is about 2-3 days from the winter solstice at around December 22-23. Almost every calendar has dates marked for winter solstice, so you add 2-3 sunrise and sunsets and you arrive at the date corresponding to December 25

    • @NielMalan
      @NielMalan Рік тому

      @@1dueceon9er No, I'm referring to the fact the orbits of the planets simply cannot be made to fit any calendar that runs uninterrupted for thousands of years.

    • @langreeves6419
      @langreeves6419 11 місяців тому

      ​@@gamer7916yeah, it's pretty stupid to think since previous peoples used different calendars that we can't match up anything?
      That's like saying the Gospels never mention "Jesus"
      It's true. The original Gospels did NOT have the word "Jesus" in them....they were written in greek! But that doesn't mean translation is not possible.

    • @nicholasmerlino293
      @nicholasmerlino293 4 місяці тому

      Uh, it’s proven ancient Egyptians ran on the same colander as us… and that there is a literal astrological phenomenon that would happen on said dates lmao.

    • @NielMalan
      @NielMalan 4 місяці тому +2

      @@nicholasmerlino293 Did the ancient Egyptians really eat spaghetti?

  • @Tmanaz480
    @Tmanaz480 10 місяців тому +10

    There was a time not too long ago when these types of claims would be met with either:
    1. Flat denial from apologists and assertions that the Bible is inerrant. or...
    2.Atheists scoffing and snorting that "they're all myths--who cares?"
    Thanks Dan, for doing something new on the internet. Your impeccable knowledge gives the world an expert, "in-universe" understanding of all these ancient stories.

    • @nicholasmerlino293
      @nicholasmerlino293 4 місяці тому

      They are all myths by definition no?

    • @nicholasmerlino293
      @nicholasmerlino293 4 місяці тому

      Horus also was born on December 25th, I don’t get why the disprovers, always put less effort into their rebuttals and offer no source or evidence of anything lmao, the more I want zeitgeist the movie to be disproved the less likely it becomes that it’s disprovable.

    • @Durante_di_Alighiero
      @Durante_di_Alighiero 4 місяці тому +2

      @@nicholasmerlino293 Wtf are you talking about? There literally is no document that states the Horus was born on a date that coincides with the date we know as 25th December. Like not one.

    • @nicholasmerlino293
      @nicholasmerlino293 4 місяці тому

      @@Durante_di_Alighiero dude I literally looked it up “The ancient Egyptians believed that the god Horus was born around December 25th, but there is no evidence that this date was ever celebrated” and yes it says “believed” but everything in this world is “believed” our entire history is just “believed”. All major events are all “believed” with the occupying “facts” and “context” but even then it’s still just believed. Objective Truth certainly exists but I mean there’s literally no way of ever knowing if something is really objectively true

    • @VoiceOfIrrationality
      @VoiceOfIrrationality 3 місяці тому

      ​@@nicholasmerlino293The movie Zeitgeist made positive claims without any documentation. Are you now demanding documentation to prove a negative?

  • @magister343
    @magister343 Рік тому +14

    I guess that, technically, the rock from which Mithras was born probably never had sex.

  • @lnsflare1
    @lnsflare1 Рік тому +10

    I never understand why people keep claiming that Krishna's mom was a virgin, when he's the youngest of many children born to a married couple who was locked up together for years.

    • @eddiesigerexperience9803
      @eddiesigerexperience9803 2 місяці тому

      Jesus has siblings

    • @lnsflare1
      @lnsflare1 2 місяці тому +2

      @@eddiesigerexperience9803 I think the general explanation for that (other than the possibility that James was just a conman pretending to be his brother) is that Jesus' alleged siblings were from Joseph's previous marriage, since he's apparently a lot older than Mary.

    • @eddiesigerexperience9803
      @eddiesigerexperience9803 2 місяці тому

      @@lnsflare1 I never realized he was older, definitely plausible. Would not matter for me either way since she was a still a virgin when she conceived Jesus

    • @lnsflare1
      @lnsflare1 2 місяці тому +1

      @@eddiesigerexperience9803 Then in the case of Krishna, he was the youngest child of a loving married couple who were locked up together, so his mother was definitely not a virgin at the time of his conception or birth. Like, Krishna wasn't even the first of their children to be snuck out of their captivity due to divine intervention, and Krishna ended up growing up with his biological elder brother, Balarama.

    • @eddiesigerexperience9803
      @eddiesigerexperience9803 2 місяці тому

      @@lnsflare1 Oh yeah definitely not, interesting stuff.

  • @AlistairZands
    @AlistairZands 11 місяців тому +5

    My favorite part of Egyptian mythology is where Horus is betrayed by Typhon. A Greek mythological monster that was specifically birthed by Gaea to fight the Olympians and was defeated by Zeus.
    Just in case: Greek and Egyptian people meeting blended the myths at times (according to some versions, the gods running from Typhon in the form of animals were the basis of the Egyptian deities!), but this is the first I've ever heard of Typhon interacting with any Egyptian deity in either set of myths

  • @powerviolentnightmare5026
    @powerviolentnightmare5026 Рік тому +6

    Took like five seconds to debunk the first (mis)information. Splendid

  • @anaid2to9th37
    @anaid2to9th37 Рік тому +4

    Slight misspeaking at 1:32 "The only thing said in that clip that is accurate is that Osiris was Horus's son." It should have been "Horus was Osiris's son," which is what Dan surely meant to say.

  • @VulcanLogic
    @VulcanLogic Рік тому +4

    I really wish we knew more about Mithraism, Christianity's major competitor. We do have evidence of at least one similarity: Justin Martyr accuses Mithraists of copying Christian Communion in his First Apology Chapter 66.

  • @johnmeadow1426
    @johnmeadow1426 Рік тому +4

    This is the millionth time you've addressed this information.

    • @lessons_in_tanya
      @lessons_in_tanya Рік тому

      title of the video literally says (again)

    • @MarkSiefert
      @MarkSiefert 8 днів тому

      Only because this clown won’t shut up.

  • @kadmii
    @kadmii Рік тому +4

    whenever I see one of these and they start with Horus, I think "ah yes, I too have seen Zeitgeist"

  • @eddiesigerexperience9803
    @eddiesigerexperience9803 2 місяці тому +1

    Jesus wasn’t even born on December 25th that point can immediately been thrown out by anybody trying to make connections

  • @MarcosElMalo2
    @MarcosElMalo2 5 місяців тому +4

    Ra is also the God of cheerleading.

  • @angelakutilin1768
    @angelakutilin1768 3 місяці тому +1

    Thank you for your informative video and debunking those lies! God bless you🙏😊

  • @KJVSolomon
    @KJVSolomon 4 місяці тому +1

    Someone tried to disprove my faith using that movie and i just have a question. Why do people ignore historical facts?

  • @stephenspackman5573
    @stephenspackman5573 2 місяці тому

    There are a _lot_ of calendrical calculations hidden behind these claims. What is this person meaning by “December 25”? By “Sunday”?

  • @The_Other_Ghost
    @The_Other_Ghost 7 місяців тому +1

    The best part of the movie is it shows that if something sounds possible we can believe something without real evidence.

    • @creamwobbly
      @creamwobbly 2 місяці тому

      No that's the best part of Star Wars

  • @shanegooding4839
    @shanegooding4839 4 місяці тому +2

    Zeitgeist sounds unwatchable.😊

  • @billcook4768
    @billcook4768 Рік тому +2

    I was confused during the video because for some reason I was thinking Mithra was a monster from the Godzilla movies.

    • @larrywest42
      @larrywest42 3 місяці тому +1

      Mothra wasn't a monster! She was kind, and heroic.

  • @dausonando
    @dausonando Рік тому +3

    Does any of the content creators you stitch change their views based on what you’ve said?

    • @odiram
      @odiram Рік тому +3

      I’ve seen a few content creators update their views over much milder disagreements, but so far I haven’t seen any wilder conspiracy theorists or authoritarian dogmatists meaningfully engage with any of Dan’s commentary.

    • @maklelan
      @maklelan  Рік тому +15

      There have been a couple folks who've acknowledged misinformation, and one who deleted their original video and shared mine on their channel. It's pretty rare, though.

  • @TheBackyardProfessor
    @TheBackyardProfessor Рік тому +5

    Slaying them with accurate and good knowledge I love it!

    • @dripfoe_3307
      @dripfoe_3307 8 місяців тому +1

      No he just lied several times and generally argued in bad faith. Horus was also the God of the sun, Ra as well just like Apollo and Helios were both gods of the sun. The sun is literally the most important thing to us, the ancients knew that too which is why they created several gods who personified the sun. Not only that, but many of these claims that Dan tried to counter are literally carved in stone like Horus and his 12 disciples.

    • @dumbnumb162
      @dumbnumb162 7 місяців тому +1

      @@dripfoe_3307there is literally no archaeological evidence to support the claim. The only thing closest to the idea of disciples are the followers of Horus. Shemsu-Heru, and there are supposedly only 4 of them.

    • @nicholasmerlino293
      @nicholasmerlino293 4 місяці тому

      @@dumbnumb162the claim that Horus didn’t have 12 disciples is the closest thing to truth this dude has said the entire video everything else he so confidently says is wrong lmao

  • @SHRBJHD
    @SHRBJHD 2 місяці тому

    Never thought it was frutitless to watch one of your videos, m until you felt like you had to debunk this idiot. Love ya bud.

  • @perrywilliams5407
    @perrywilliams5407 4 місяці тому

    I believe Dr. Dan said it best: Think critically and Google competently. (I hope I got the quote right.) A lot of the info Dr. Dan gave us can be gotten from the web with a modicum of effort. You don't always need a PhD to be informed.

  • @dannyboyakadandaman504furl9

    I’ve never seen this movie. To my knowledge Osiris cut to pieces and scatter to the Nile by his brother then I’ve heard some stories where he placed sarcophagus.

  • @DavidRencher0
    @DavidRencher0 Рік тому +3

    Correct me if I'm wrong- but the statement made for several of these deities that they were supposedly crucified is laughable on its face because these myths existed long before the Roman Empire and the actual invention/use of cuxifiction by them. Like, that takes two seconds to think about. I'm mystified that someone actually believes that any of this nonsense is true, and not just on this one fact alone.

    • @gamer7916
      @gamer7916 Рік тому +2

      @@morganwyatt5953 it probably existed in some way or shape even before that. After all, people in antiquity are surprisingly creative when it comes to ways to kill people in the most painful way possible

  • @prtauvers
    @prtauvers 4 місяці тому

    Interesting to realize that the ancient peoples used the Gregorian Calendar- December 25th?!

    • @AuditingWithAutism
      @AuditingWithAutism 3 місяці тому +2

      Well...of course they didn't. The reason December 25th keeps coming up is because it is the first day the sun can be observed to be moving back skyward, signifying the advent of spring again. The "birth of the sun." No calendar is needed, just astronomy.

  • @hjtapia74
    @hjtapia74 Рік тому +1

    I admire you to take the time to respond to these ... people.

  • @Tmanaz480
    @Tmanaz480 10 місяців тому +1

    lol... Icees? like at 7/11?

  • @nicholasmerlino293
    @nicholasmerlino293 4 місяці тому

    Horus is the god of the sun and the sky.

  • @OuryLN
    @OuryLN 6 місяців тому

    No calendar, then.

  • @lde-m8688
    @lde-m8688 11 місяців тому

    I didn't have to strap in......

  • @larrywest42
    @larrywest42 3 місяці тому

    This guy probably laughs his ä$$ off thinking about the people who fall for his B.S.

  • @reycondor8083
    @reycondor8083 2 місяці тому

    Plus mithras was birn from a rock

  • @BabyHoolighan
    @BabyHoolighan 9 місяців тому +1

    The creator is creative but he has no method. His inability to recognize Dr. Dan's scholarship tells me he is getting ready to walk into a right upper cut. This explains why he so obsessed with stars.

  • @langreeves6419
    @langreeves6419 11 місяців тому +1

    Wow, never saw the movie.
    Sounds like a waste of time.

  • @gamer7916
    @gamer7916 Рік тому +1

    So Dionysus restored to life from a leftover heart being a resurrection is “nonsensical”? If you remove all the parts of someone except an organ, is that person still alive? Under your logic, Jesus also regenerated, since even after he was killed on the cross, his bone and skin cells would still be alive for several days.

    • @howlrichard1028
      @howlrichard1028 Рік тому +1

      It's nonsensical because greek gods were immortal. Regeneration and resurrection ate not the same thing.

    • @dannyboyakadandaman504furl9
      @dannyboyakadandaman504furl9 Рік тому

      And in some cases he was torn apart by the titans.

    • @gamer7916
      @gamer7916 Рік тому +1

      ⁠@@howlrichard1028 except no Ancient Greek thought of their gods that way. In fact, Dionysus is said to die and resurrect every year. Even Pan was thought to have died in the first century CE, and when the Greeks heard it they cried and mourned

    • @travcollier
      @travcollier Рік тому +1

      ​@@gamer7916Dionysus is an odd one. He seems to come from some quite old mythology, but depictions changed a lot as time went on. One of the tidbits which seems to have stuck was Dionysus having the rare ability to (more or less) freely travel to and from the underworld.

  • @danielhagan3506
    @danielhagan3506 Рік тому

    this guy seems so unsure withhimself

  • @Kryso_0
    @Kryso_0 Рік тому +3

    Zeitgeist was the most powerful piece of (what I assumed to be) propaganda aimed at the US from my teenage years. In my mind, it is the cornerstone of the early years of viral information warfare aimed at disillusionment of an entire generation. I’m relieved to see a major pillar of the video demolished by a scholar, (even if by appeals to authority) Thank you for step one.
    Also, now that I think about it, you have a similar cadence and range as the voice of Zeitgeist, but definitely not the same timbre. Age difference maybe!? 🧐🤨 that’s quite the long march to become famous by disproving your own piece of propaganda!
    [Seriously reader. That’s a convoluted joke about (the long march of) communism. A joke which seizes ground with the same accuracy of thought that inspired and proliferated the zeitgeist movie in the first place. Dan McClellan has no investment in the liberalization of faith. In fact, he does not even teach his own theology. He only seeks share the best scholarship within his reach He would Never abuse his position and education to cause you to question your faith. (Again, another joke, Don’t fall for what I just did there)
    Zero doesn’t exist. The sky is a dome. you are a slave. The earth is flat. We didn’t go to the moon. Mudfloods, the sun is a six-thousand year cycle of micro-novas that resets humanity and the next thousand years is a day of rest for the earth…. I wonder if word salad to make my point…. The most important aspect of propaganda is the inducement to exhaustion. Its not about true versus false. by the time you start to feel the anxiety, more and more noise works… and less and less reason is required to keep the ball rolling. The fog of war rolls in before the bullets fly. And if the fog is thick enough or your lamps just so, the enemy will devour themselves. War sucks.
    The sun rises in the east and sets in the west (and never as mesmerizing as now.) but west is the east and east is the west and no one knows how to plow.

    • @MarcosElMalo2
      @MarcosElMalo2 5 місяців тому

      Your teenage years did this? We need to track them down and hold them accountable.

  • @thequeenofswords7230
    @thequeenofswords7230 10 місяців тому

    ooh! Typhon

  • @soseverian
    @soseverian 6 днів тому

    Do all these dumb creators get a memo from a central source or something?

  • @gregorydeanitos8121
    @gregorydeanitos8121 Рік тому

    Excellent thank you.

  • @marron50libra2
    @marron50libra2 4 місяці тому

    That link that I just posted destroys All this evil doctrines against the bible

  • @nicholasmerlino293
    @nicholasmerlino293 4 місяці тому

    Horus didn’t have intercourse. Not how we would consider it at least, not sure how flying around a dead person on a kite and getting pregnant, proves she wasn’t a virgin lmao

  • @squiminysquoo
    @squiminysquoo 7 місяців тому

    Loved this debunking but was shocked and offended by the the exclamation of "G... d..." If you're defending Christianity, why are you blaspheming? Geez louize (see, not a curse word there... there are substitutions people).

    • @lorddosuniversos
      @lorddosuniversos 6 місяців тому +6

      He is not defending Christianity, he is just debunking misinformation.

    • @MarcosElMalo2
      @MarcosElMalo2 5 місяців тому

      Jumping chiwis on a pogo stick.

  • @brandontraugher
    @brandontraugher 8 місяців тому

    I mourn the amount of souls that will not receive the Lord's salvation because of lies conveniently packaged, this "zeitgeist" movie seems to be a mind-virus that fully and utterly convinces people to worship themselves as God. Thank you Dan for taking the time to debunk these claims.

  • @nicholasmerlino293
    @nicholasmerlino293 4 місяці тому

    I’m so confused how you say things that are disproven by a single google search

  • @nicholasmerlino293
    @nicholasmerlino293 4 місяці тому

    “Based on pure and utter fabrication” as if the intention of the creator of zeitgeist isn’t more pure and for the benefit of the people than the corrupt leaders of every single religious organization on this planet. Zeitgeist is arguably less of a conspiracy theory than any religion, the fact the term religion exists is a problem they should all be considered myth/legend, or all be considered religion, separating the two creates the impression that they aren’t the same thing 😂

    • @SoggolisAwesome
      @SoggolisAwesome 12 днів тому

      Dude… you could have fit this in one comment 😭😭 no need to make like 5.

    • @nicholasmerlino293
      @nicholasmerlino293 12 днів тому

      @@SoggolisAwesome I’m
      Based

  • @carlecobichon
    @carlecobichon Рік тому +2

    fake news

  • @nicholasmerlino293
    @nicholasmerlino293 4 місяці тому

    Yo keep citing non encirnt Egyptian interpretations of the religion lmao

    • @creamwobbly
      @creamwobbly 2 місяці тому

      Are you okay hon? You seem to be having a stroke

    • @nicholasmerlino293
      @nicholasmerlino293 2 місяці тому

      @@creamwobbly couldn’t interpret I meant to write out *ancient? Pretty embarrassing.

  • @charlo90952
    @charlo90952 Рік тому +1

    You have to be very cautious of taking these texts too literally. They're all allegorical. We've lost the keys to the allegories so we cannot understand them. Godfrey Higgins, in his monumental work Anacalypsis, published 1840, said "All gods ultimately resolve into the Sun." So a literal reading of the texts may not show immediate similarities between these various deities, but it's very likely that a deeper reading will show echoing parallel themes. It's inconceivable in fact that they are not ultimately solar deities. After all, what is a "god"? It's simply a personification of a natural event.
    The Rg Veda is full of what are essentially nature deities...Indra, god of the rains, eg. Clearly humans must have originally worshipped the Sun as the bringer of life. Then he was given human form and legends and mythology grew up around the deity to make it easier for people to relate to.
    Higgins also says the texts are written at two levels. One, a literal meaning intended for "women and children", and an allegorical level intended for priests and intelligentsia. Higgins also says the mythology repeats on 600 year cycles known as the "cycle of Neros". The Romulus and Remus story of the founding of Rome is one example of a constantly repeating mythology. So the Jesus story is most likely another example. Since Christ > Kristo > Krishta > Krishna., clearly there's a parallel between "Jesus" and Krishna, even if it's not immediately obvious. Obviously Dec 25 is no arbitrary date. It's very close to the Winter Solstice, and no doubt the discrepancy can be explained by changing calendars over the millennia.
    There are plenty of other parallels between "Jesus" and Krishna. For instance, we can say that "Jesus" is both Shiva and Vishnu, since his Biblical names are Isa/Isha ('s' is sounded 'sh' in Sanskrit). This is a name of Shiva. Yeshua (Yeshwara in Sanskrit), Kristos and Yesu are other names of Krishna. In India, Krishna is known as Yesu Krishna and Kristna. Furthermore, Melchizedek was Lord Krishna. One of the names of Krishna is Sadhaka. The term of address for a king is Malika. Thus Malika Sadhaka, or Melichi Zedek, is king, or lord, Krishna.
    Similarly, Jerusalem is Yeru-shalayim in Hebrew, and Yadu-Ishalayam in Sanskrit, meaning rock of the Yadus. Krishna was of the Yadu clan as are the Jews, hence, Yid, Yuden. So you can see the eerie parallels between "Jesus" and Krishna. There were all sorts of shenanigans concerning Krishna's birth. While on the face of it it's not the same as the Jesus story, no doubt with further digging, bearing in mind the allegorical nature of the texts, parallels could be drawn by those much better qualified them me. Certainly eminent seventeenth and eighteenth century academics believed there were parallels.
    Krishna was impaled on a tree by a hunter's arrow, which he must have survived (resurrection?) since he went to Palestine. This might be a parallel with the crucifixion. And while normally Krishna's "appearance" day is celebrated in August, there are villages in India where it is Dec 25. Possibly the August date is a result of failing to correct the calendar. And since 'nile' means blue in Sanskrit, as in in 'Blue Nile', Sanskrit speakers must have been in Egypt, so a careful reading of the texts allowing for allegory may well reveal a connection between Horus and Krishna.

    • @howlrichard1028
      @howlrichard1028 Рік тому +1

      Please, use paragraphs. Reading this is a nightmare.

    • @charlo90952
      @charlo90952 Рік тому +1

      @@howlrichard1028 Sorry. It's way too much nonsense. I should just delete it.

  • @roll_another_one
    @roll_another_one Рік тому

    And this prooves that Jesus is son of God and born on 25/12/0000

    • @howlrichard1028
      @howlrichard1028 Рік тому +1

      No, why would it?
      Btw, there's no year 0, ans Jesus would have been born in the year 3.

    • @roll_another_one
      @roll_another_one Рік тому

      @@howlrichard1028 yeh oc it doesn't, I was being sarcastic