2. The Pagan Christ Zeitgeist Three Aspects of a “Spirit of the Age” James Patrick Holding Tekton Apologetics Ministries “Skeptics silenced…. rogues refuted.”

3. 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

4. Godfrey Higgins -- Anacalypsis Lost civilizations and racist nonsense The first Zeitgeisters Kersey Graves World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors A freethinker out to destroy religion

5. The Modern Zeitgeisters Tom Harpur The Pagan Christ Acharya S The Christ Conspiracy Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy The Jesus Mysteries

6. The pagan christs? Mithra Dionysus Attis Zoroaster Beddru Krishna Alcides Chu Chulainn Baal Zalmoxis Osiris Horus Crite Hesus Zoar Adonis Etc…

7. 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

8. Mithra (continued) Born of a rock, and much too late Disciples? Try horoscopes!

9. Mithra (continued) Killed a bull – was never killed himself Mithraic scriptures? Really? Where?

10. 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”

11. 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

12. Pagan christ #3: osiris Raised from the dead? No…more like this:

13. the methods Information is often made up or copied uncritically Parallels are drawn using equivocation Questionable use or interpretation of evidence

16. For Further Reading Tom Harpur http://www.tektonics.org/harpur01.htmlhttp://www.tektonics.org/harpur01.html Acharya S http://www.tektonics.org/af/achy01.htmlhttp://www.tektonics.org/af/achy01.html Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy http://www.tektonics.org/books/jesmystrvw.html http://www.tektonics.org/books/jesmystrvw.html Zeitgeist movie http://www.preventingtruthdecay.org/zeitgeistp artone.shtml http://benwitherington.blogspot.com/2007/12/z eitgeist-of-zeitgeist-movie.html Pagan Christs http://www.tektonics.org/copycat/copycathub.html http://www.tektonics.org/copycat/copycathub.html