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I like the parts where they gave evidence for their claims and didn't leave anything out, unlike what pastors do by hiding evidence.
Aren't those pastors just the worst?
Yeah, they make some really good points but they never give any actual archeological evidence for any of their claims, it's just "historians found this", which is basically the same thing religious people do to justify their beliefs. I feel like the documentary is on the right track, but the execution is so-so.
I mean, they DO site their sources. It's in the description.
They even show clips of those experts reading from well-cited books like Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence or The Apocalyptic Imagination. You can go read those or others of multi-hundred page books shown if you want the definitive evidence, but in this case this wasn't about "here's the hard evidence". Especially since people don't change their minds if you present evidence like that.
It's supposed to consolidate information and help people start the process to questioning some things that maybe were once set in stone. Not fully change change minds or be referenced as a resource.