Welcome Ashley!
It’s great to have you in the community.
For the record, I don’t think the government has the people’s best interests at heart. I couldn’t disseminate what you were trying to say there.
Some conspiracies are true, but many are not. That’s just a fact of life. The biggest one lately, the COVID vaccines were “the death jab,” and half of the world’s population was going to die. I’m still waiting for that one. Then the scam and farse, “died suddenly” was repeated by Christians over and over again. They fell for the bait, and tarnished our faith, again.
That conspiracy, along with nano-bots in the vaccines, and them being the “mark of the beast” severely damaged many Christians. Even worse, it severely damaged the Christian faith as Christians continually spread this nonsense, which turned out to be untrue. Far too many people, far too many Christians suddenly became internet medical doctors.
In the end, there was no death jab.
Just another botched government attempt to avert a crisis they created to begin with.
From my experience, dealing with thousands and thousands of people, those who immerse themselves in conspiracies say they’re seeking the truth, but really, most only seek to confirm their pre-disposition. Christians do this, everyone does this. Very, very few people can look at a subject objectively, without bias. Instead, they solidify their cognitive bias.
For myself, I always challenge my briefs, I challenge everything. If something sounds good and fits into what I already believe, that’s when I challenge it even more. Instead of saying, some new piece of evidence is true because of x, y, and z. I turn it around, this new piece of evidence is NOT true because of x, y, and z.
The main point of this article, is promoting a conspiracy never helped anyone in life. It never helped them mentally, spiritually, financially, or with their family. Instead, it drives them away from everything, and into rabbit holes, which I’ve talked about in the past.
You know, when I hear seeking “God’s truth,” I shutter a bit. All Christians are trying to do that, to the best of our ability, right? However, there are thousands of Christian denominations, and everyone in them, is seeking “God’s truth.” There’s just one problem, we all believe something different.
So who has the real truth?
The last thing I wanted to touch on was the links and graph that you mentioned. Radical conspiracies are promoted by those groups of people. It’s a fact and well-documented. I have never met a conspiracy theorist from MIT or with a high level of education. There’s a reason, the more you learn, the more you understand how the world functions. People are afraid of what they don’t know. The more you know, the more you can properly analyze and deduce information.
Our wisdom and insight should never be obtained from fear.com.
2Ti 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Blessings!