The Pagan Christ ZeitgeistThree Aspects of a “Spirit of the Age”

James Patrick Holding

Tekton Apologetics Ministries

<http://www.tektonics.org>

“Skeptics silenced….rogues refuted.”

What is The “Pagan Christ Zeitgeist”?

• A form of the Christ myth, or idea that Jesus never existed

• Draws parallels between the life of Jesus and those of pagan deities, and claims that Christians borrowed or stole those ideas to create the story of Jesus

Godfrey Higgins -- AnacalypsisLost civilizations

and racist nonsense

The first Zeitgeisters

Kersey Graves

World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors

A freethinker out to destroy religion

The Modern Zeitgeisters

Tom Harpur

The Pagan Christ

Acharya S

The Christ Conspiracy

Timothy Freke and

Peter Gandy

The Jesus Mysteries

The pagan christs?Mithra DionysusAttisZoroasterBeddruKrishnaAlcidesChu Chulainn

BaalZalmoxisOsirisHorusCriteHesusZoarAdonis Etc…

Pagan christ #1: Mithra• Born of a virgin on Dec. 25th • Had 12 disciples• Died, was buried in a tomb, and rose after three days.• 1 Cor. 10:4 stolen from his Scriptures

Mithra (continued)

• Born of a rock, and much too late• Disciples? Try horoscopes!

Mithra (continued)

• Killed a bull – was never killed himself• Mithraic scriptures? Really? Where?

Pagan Christ #2: attis• His body and blood were consumed by worshippers• Crucified on Friday, his blood redeemed the earth• Resurrected after 3 days as “Most High God”

Attis (continued)• A sacred meal – but of what, we don’t know• Died under a tree… and made some flowers• Different stories, no resurrection…until too late

Pagan christ #3: osiris

Raised from the dead?

No…more like this:

the methods

• Information is often made up or copied uncritically• Parallels are drawn using equivocation• Questionable use or interpretation of evidence

For Further Reading

Tom Harpur http://www.tektonics.org/harpur01.htmlAcharya S http://www.tektonics.org/af/achy01.htmlTimothy Freke and Peter Gandy http://www.tektonics.org/books/jesmystrvw.htmlZeitgeist movie

http://www.preventingtruthdecay.org/zeitgeistpartone.shtml

http://benwitherington.blogspot.com/2007/12/zeitgeist-of-zeitgeist-movie.htmlPagan Christs http://www.tektonics.org/copycat/copycathub.html