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Warning: 'Antichrist' movie tricking Christians
wnd ^ | 3/25/09 | Joe Kovacs

Posted on 03/26/2009 7:28:35 AM PDT by Evil Slayer

An online movie documenting the close ties between ancient pagan religions and today's Christianity is "antichrist" in nature, destroying the faith of believers by combining some astonishing truth with plenty of error.

That's the claim of a Christian historian and author who, ironically, has himself been educating the public about the impact heathen sun worship has had on traditional Christianity.

Richard Rives, author of "Time is the Ally of Deceit" and "Too Long in the Sun," is sounding the alarm about "Zeitgeist," a 2007 documentary written and narrated by Peter Joseph, a freelance film editor, composer and producer in New York City.

Literally meaning "spirit of the time," "Zeitgeist" was released on DVD and the Internet, and Joseph claims it has been viewed more than 50 million times on Google Video, and more than 100 million times when other formats and public screenings are taken into account.

(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antichrist; christianity; paganworship; religion; zeitgeist
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To: GunRunner

“Krishna belonged to the royal family of Mathura, and was the eighth son born to the princess Devaki, and her husband Vasudeva.” (Wikipedia). Not a virgin birth.

“But the Olympian gods, fearing Agdistis, cut off the male organ and cast it away. There grew up from it an almond-tree, and when its fruit was ripe, Nana ...picked an almond and laid it in her bosom. The almond disappeared, and she became pregnant. Nana abandoned the baby (Attis). ..Attis went mad and cut off his genitals. ...Attis was reborn as the evergreen pine.” (Wikipedia). Sort of a virgin birth, with a penis-almond involved. Definitely not a crucifixion. Not exactly a resurrection. Transformation into a plant - laurel tree, reeds, narcissus - is a common Greek element.


41 posted on 03/26/2009 8:17:33 AM PDT by heartwood (Tarheel in exile)
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To: Evil Slayer
Zeitgeist [Religion] The Greatest Story Ever Sold (1of 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNf-P_5u_Hw&feature=PlayList&p=74B7BF0C6173B522&index=0&playnext=1

I never heard of it until now.

42 posted on 03/26/2009 8:19:17 AM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* 'I love you guys')
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To: Evil Slayer; Quix; Star Traveler

Antichrist (pinch of poop) Ping!


43 posted on 03/26/2009 8:19:30 AM PDT by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: Mom MD

Holy Spirit makes Faith Strong in the inner man of the individual putting God first in all their ways to the best of their capacities to do so.

imho.


44 posted on 03/26/2009 8:21:00 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: heartwood; MEGoody

OK, try Perseus next.


45 posted on 03/26/2009 8:21:07 AM PDT by GunRunner
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To: Le Chien Rouge
Then those who tossed their faith in Jesus never had any faith to begin with..

Exactly, this whole thing is a bunch of hogwash.

46 posted on 03/26/2009 8:21:34 AM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: Perdogg

Thanks.

Had an impression in my spirit about the movie that it was not worth touching.

Glad my sense was right.


47 posted on 03/26/2009 8:21:44 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Jo Nuvark

Thanks for the ping.

horrific nonsense, imho.


48 posted on 03/26/2009 8:22:30 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: GunRunner
I recommend the “Case for the Real Jesus” by Lee Strobel to you. You will find that what you are saying is nothing more than a modern myth.

The ancients knew different, they knew the old mythologies well, and if the Gospels were just a plagiarism of them, they would have been rejected outright.

49 posted on 03/26/2009 8:24:03 AM PDT by ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY ( The Constitution needs No interpreting, only APPLICATION!)
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To: LottieDah

“Deception is part of the plan. And the sheeple are very easy to deceive.”

It is, and they are, and both were demonstrated together last November, in the Presidential election.


50 posted on 03/26/2009 8:28:36 AM PDT by RoadTest (The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? - Jer.17:9)
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To: BenLurkin

Anyone well grounded in scripture would recognize Christmas, Easter, steeples, and other traditions for what they are, too.

Isreal wasn’t tricked into baal worship instantly or by it being obviously evil.

Christians are no different.


51 posted on 03/26/2009 8:33:20 AM PDT by Eagle Eye (Obama - Taking jobs from Americans.)
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To: FBD

*ping*

You’re going to want to read the article, and responses here kiddo. ;^)


52 posted on 03/26/2009 8:33:57 AM PDT by Landru (Arghh, it's trapped in my colon like spackle or paste.)
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To: ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY

There does seem to always be some contingent of young people who latch on to the the fact that the Dec. 25th date was borrowed form paganism - quite as if they’ve discovered some sort of secret.


53 posted on 03/26/2009 8:36:28 AM PDT by eclecticEel (I already have a Messiah, I don't need another one.)
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To: ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY
You must have a different definition of virgin birth than I do. If a virgin birth is someone conceived without sexual intercourse, then there are plenty of examples from cultures all over the globe.

But that doesn't necessarily mean that the Gospels were plagiarized from Gilgamesh, Perseus, or other myths. It just means that men fathered by gods are a common theme in world religion.

54 posted on 03/26/2009 8:36:39 AM PDT by GunRunner
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To: GunRunner; Evil Slayer; Quix; Star Traveler; Steve Van Doorn; heartwood; ...

Being an old deaconess of the Faith (in Jesus Christ),
I see these films come and go. I also expect new
(and allbeit Biblically illiterate) believer’s to pitch
themselves into a frothy outrage.

Our best defense is to pray that God would put a shield
of confusion over the uninitiated who see the movie.
Ask God to pour out His light on that dark place, that
darkness cannot dwell with light. Seems to me it would
be pretty difficult to view a movie with the Light of
Christ shining everywhere.

Our next defense is to quit talking about it with
reactive outrage. It only kindles curiousity and fuels
interest in this kind of filth.

I have learned to be still and know that God is in
control.

His always... Jo


55 posted on 03/26/2009 8:37:20 AM PDT by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: GunRunner

Christianity never “took” anything from Mithraism..


56 posted on 03/26/2009 8:47:55 AM PDT by JSDude1
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To: Jo Nuvark

WISE WORDS.

THx.


57 posted on 03/26/2009 8:52:18 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Evil Slayer

Sun god worship is no stranger to the God of Israel. Mythology has been around for a long time, imitating the promise of God. One of those gods that has received tremendous attention lately is Allah, known in earlier days as Enlil, now stripped of his daughter/wife Allat/Ninlil, and reduced to a moon god. They are everywhere, prolific over the ages and just as prolific today. The women of Israel were weeping for Tamuz. The doctrine of Baalam has plagued the Church since the beginning. It’s the same old garbage believers have always had to deal with, the same old new age stuff that won’t go away.


58 posted on 03/26/2009 9:11:36 AM PDT by pallis
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To: Quix

I agree. If we are saved, it is His strength, not ours that preserves our faith. We cannot fail.


59 posted on 03/26/2009 9:14:19 AM PDT by Mom MD (Jesus is the Light of the world!)
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To: GunRunner

Perseus, son of Danae, prophesied to kill his grandfather. Hence gf immured Danae in bronze chamber with small hole for food and drink. Danae visited by Zeus in a shower of gold.

Now I don’t think that the Greeks thought that Zeus just sparkled on Danae for a couple seconds and wafted up through the hole again. Not in character. Zeus liked his ladies; he took bodily form and enjoyed her.

Not a virgin birth. Killing mother’s father, not a Christian element.


60 posted on 03/26/2009 9:20:15 AM PDT by heartwood (Tarheel in exile)
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