Thread: The Greatest Story ever told

I can't watch it right now, but what is the gist of it?

Basic premise is that Christian based religion ... ALL of them ... are a fictitious plagiarism of the Egyptian religion built around Horace. The end statement is that this religious fiction was penned in order to control the masses. It's backed with an impressive collection of dated similarities beginning with an educational look at astronomy and astrology.

Worth a look.

I try to watch it tonight.

Off the top of my head though, there will be similarities, but the problem is the lineage.

The Catholics took a lot of symbolism from the other religions of the time to entice the members of those religions to join there's. For example, the "patron saints" was created to make it more comfortable for those that followed a pantheon of gods to follow Catholicism. That's also why there is a halo around the saint's heads. It's to symbolize the sun god of the time.

The similarities may not run the way that some think.

Did they cover this in the movie?

The movie covered the period around 370 ad when the scriptures were canonized, but not the specifics of the halo.

Originally Posted by BoneCrusher

The movie covered the period around 370 ad when the scriptures were canonized, but not the specifics of the halo.

Thought so.

I'll still try to watch it, but I'm pretty sure the logic is flawed.

They have some good examples in that first part but the overall, conspiracy, message they are trying to express is crap. Religions were not created to control the masses.

Read this book called Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell. He basically tells the same message, of religions (he calls them all myths) from different times and different regions with no relation to one another in anyway, coming up with the same basic themes in their myths to answer questions they could not, themselves, answer. Virgin births, afterlives, deaths and resurrections, and many others are present across the spectrum of religions/myths/legends throughout time.

The basic idea is that these things are meant to be taken symbolically, not literally. You are meant to get the message that there exists something out there that is beyond our reach.

I had to read the book for a philosophy class and loved it. It kind of helped me come to an agnostic view on religion, afterlife etc. I don't follow any religion literally, but i do try and be a good person, productive, just etc.

OMA i hate shit like that. why dont people get a life. who would waste there time going that far to make fun of others religion.

no thanks