'Is there a spiritual way to kill an animal? I'll put it this way: How would Jesus kill an animal?'. This was the question Kameron Waters asked Kip Anderson while attending a Q&A for Cowspiracy. Kip was so taken aback, he blundered, 'I don’t know'. This simple, yet transcendent question caused Kip and Kameron to take a step back from all that that they knew to be true. It was the beginning of Christspiracy's 5-year journey to unearthing the truth about why the world’s major religions hid a devastating secret from their followers: the exploitation of animals, especially eating them.
KIP ANDERSON: What if one core, consequential principle was lost in translation within all world religions and it’s the key to unlocking the path towards compassion and peace on Earth? Christspiracy: The Spirituality Secret, a groundbreaking investigative documentary unearthing the biggest cover-up in the last 2,000 years that will change the way you think about faith and our relationship with animals forever.
The one question that stopped Kip Andersen in his tracks: “Is there a spiritual way to kill an animal? I’ll put it this way: How would Jesus kill an animal?”. This was the question Kameron Waters asked Kip while attending a Q&A for Cowspiracy. Kip was so taken aback, he blundered, “I don’t know”. Then devout Christian, Kam, dropped Kip his business card and said he was an aspiring filmmaker…
This simple, yet transcendent question caused Kip and Kam to take a step back from all that that they knew to be true. The rest is history, Christspiracy was born… This was the beginning of a 5-year journey to unearthing the truth about why the world’s major religions hid a devastating secret from their followers. A secret that we unearth in Christspiracy.
After producing and co-creating blockbuster Netflix documentaries, Cowspiracy, What the Health, and Seaspiracy, Kip Andersen was missing one essential element from his film lineage: ethics and spirituality.
Kam had to step away from the church and his career as a gospel musician and songwriter for Sony Records and start living out of his van named “Mira.” Kip, who was ready to be done making “-spiracy” films at the time, had to reconsider if he should dust off his producer hat, hop in his trusty van “Super-Blue” … and step back into the arena of making groundbreaking films on the impact of the animal agriculture industry.
For 5 years, we traveled continent to continent hopping from Rome to Jerusalem, Oxford to India—interviewing everyone from renowned theologians and archeologists to Christian farmers and Indigenous shamans—all to reveal the biggest cover-up in the last 2,000 years, one that will transform history forever.
Turns out, faith has everything to do… with our relationship to animals—especially eating them. Whether you’re eating chicken fried steak at a Christian barbecue or purchasing Halal meat from a Muslim butcher. All of the global faiths have a stance on eating animals.
This film covers the ethical angle of our relationship with animals and the industries that exploit them, specifically through the lens of world religions. But also spirituality, philosophy, sociology, psychology, and the history of how we ended up where we are today.
What you know about Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism’s stance on its relationship with meat and animals may not be true… …but the truth will be revealed by this film. Even major religious leaders don’t know this truth…but they will now. Everything we discovered in this film will shock you to your core…
After countless hours of research, years of relentless investigation, and tireless hours of planning, filming, and editing, we returned home and presented our first cut to Netflix. Let’s just say, we felt Netflix didn’t know how to view what we uncovered. They seemed to want David Attenborough meets Animal Planet, but we knew this was more The Da Vinci Code meets Passion of the Christ, so…
To ensure you were shown the 2,000-year cover-up we knew you needed to see, we decided to… BUY BACK OUR FILM. That’s where you come in… With your support, we can bust open the limited access of streaming platforms, and reach a significantly greater, more diverse audience with this unifying message of peace, justice, and compassion. Though we are grateful that our previous films were among the top performers on the platform, this time, we wanted to go where no other film has gone before and share the greatest story never fully told—our way. SOURCE…