Zeitgeist, the film that connects Jesus as myth to 9/11 as a hoax with the "New World Order" conspiracy talk of Alex Jones. Unfortunately, unlike the work in neurotheology, Zeitgeist is not backed by respectable work by anyone credible.
http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/09-02-25/
A Roman Plot? (ending of the article)
Considering that Part II of Zeitgeist asserts that the destruction of the World Trade Center was a conspiracy on the part of the powers that be, and that Part III is an attack on the Federal Reserve Board and income tax as unconstitutional plots devised by hidden powers bent on reducing all of us to poverty, one might wonder why Peter Joseph even bothered to open his film with an attack on Jesus and Christianity. Summing up at the end of Part I, Joseph asserts that Christianity was, in fact, developed by the Romans as a means of social control. He cites the Council of Nicaea in 325 as the beginning of this social control. So this is the connection between Part I and the rest of the film: Everything you’ve ever believed to be true is all a pack of lies foisted on you by the secret manipulators who really run things. They faked the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon to manipulate us into a war. They are undermining our financial and other freedoms through manipulation of our money and — guess what?! — they’ve been at it since the creation of Christianity, back in the time of the Roman Empire!
Zeitgeist is The Da Vinci Code on steroids.
Penn and Teller on 9/11 conspiracy theory talk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcrF346sS_I
And more here:
http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4196
In short, searching for alternative possible motivations, and finding and making extraneous connections between various people and events, does not prove or serve as evidence of anything. Raising the specter of doubts or alternate possibilities is very effective in distracting people away from the facts, as we saw so dramatically in O. J. Simpson's murder acquittal, and as we see throughout the 9/11 "truth" movement. (on the second part of the film)
