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I'm about halfway through the video now. On one level, it is very interesting. The ideas are good for story building, but the connections are very loosey goosey. I'd love to see the sources.

The claims about links of Christianity to other religons are not really new. It's pretty widely accepted that the Romans politicized the religon of the regions they conquered. That doesn't mean the religon is wrong, but it does mean that we need to relearn a lot of it - figure out what was changed and what still needs to be discovered. Or it could mean it is wrong... who can really know. They also claim that the crucifiction was just an astrological metaphor, however it is historical fact that the Romans did physically crucify people as a form of capital punishment.

Honestly, and I'm not trying to be mean, but the way they jump from one conclusion to another based on isolated pieces of information reminds me of a friend of mine who has schizophrenia. He's a really smart person, but when he has these episodes, he'll ramble on about things. Music, government, politics, art, history, etc.... and he'll find ways to link almost anything. It's wierd, because many of the links when looked at in isolation make sense, but then when the bigger picture is painted, it ends up being insane. One such episode started when we were talking about music and ended with him telling me that mannequins in store windows were giving him clues about things he should do. Another time he managed to convince himself that Robin's Donuts was part of an evil conspiracy.