Supporters/opinions of Quackarya S.

[TheistusMaximus]

Are there supporters of her out there? Or of Zeitgeist?

And if not, what are your thoughts of her? I'm curious, because her research is so demonstrably wrong yet she has like a cult following.

[bjorn]

There are supporters, even of Zeitgeist, though not scholars (well Robert M. Price may be an exception, having some overlapping axes to grind).

Speaking of Zeitgeist, it is so poorly researched that I was asked by the Norwegian Skeptic Society to write a rather long rebuttal, available at www.skepsis.no/konspirasjonstenkning/tidens_spokelser_zeitgeist_og.html.

So it is is wise to start learning Norwegian ;D

[merkavah12]

Hi-ho TM!,

Well of course she has a cult following. The Jesus-Myther movement is a cult in and of itself. Am I right or am I wrong?

[TheistusMaximus]

Aug 9, 2008 10:18:24 GMT bjorn said:

There are supporters, even of Zeitgeist, though not scholars (well Robert M. Price may be an exception, having some overlapping axes to grind).

Speaking of Zeitgeist, it is so poorly researched that I was asked by the Norwegian Skeptic Society to write a rather long rebuttal, available at www.skepsis.no/konspirasjonstenkning/tidens_spokelser_zeitgeist_og.html.

So it is is wise to start learning Norwegian ;D

I agree with you. It makes a big deal of the alleged astrological interpretations of the Bible, but it fails to realize that constellations were not anthropomorphized in antiquity (nor were any of the constellations remotely similar). It makes various contradictory statements, i.e. stating that Jesus is the sun, then mentioning he is actually Pisces the fish from the age of Pisces.

The entire series on the pagan parallels is poorly documented (that is unless you count 200 year old sources as fine documentation), makes note of "Beddru of Japan", as noted by Graves in his 16 Crucified Saviors, even though there is no evidence of any Beddru of Japan anywhere. It makes the same-old same-old judgments on Josephus, Tacitus, Seutonis, and it makes note of the issues of contemporary records like almost any Christ-myth fable would.

I would think "rehashed garbage" would be a little kind in describing it, simply because even The God Who Wasn't There didn't lower itself in trying to find an astrotheolgical connection between the Bible and the zodiac.

Thanks for the input.


Well of course she has a cult following. The Jesus-Myther movement is a cult in and of itself. Am I right or am I wrong?

I would say it's only Achy and Maxwell. Both of them strangely remind me of David Icke, lol.

[travis]

The fact that the Jesus myth bunk in zeitgeist is coupled with the 9/11 conspiracy and propagates that the federal reserve is trying to take over the world should give one an idea as to what type of people acharya and zeitgeist attract. As anyone that's tangled with a 9/11 truther can attest most of these people can't be reasoned with and have other, non rational, reasons for believing what they do.

I'd never actually encountered acharya before zeitgeist came out and was a bit alarmed at how uncritically some atheists accepted these crackpot theories. My theory is that most people who buy into this stuff are people who want to disbelieve, so then along come someone like ol' achy ranting about astrotheology or some such and voila, out pop sites like "truth be known".

[TheistusMaximus]

Here's an interesting parody website of Acharya by a deist:


truth-be-told.tripod.com/id4.html