“Overall, the study found that 49% of U.S. Protestant pastors ‘say they frequently hear members of their congregation repeating conspiracy theories they have heard about why something is happening in our country,'” according to the Baptist News.
“Another 47% disagree with that assessment in their churches, including 26% who strongly disagree, saying they do not often hear church members sharing such ideas,” the Baptist News continued.
So what are we to make of these surveys? Writing in The Washington Post opinion section, Brian Klaas, associate professor of global politics at University College London, recently declared that, while many of the January 6 protestors at the U.S. Capitol were Trump supporters, they shared something else: “They were conspiracy theorists. And while hundreds of people stormed the Capitol, there are millions of Americans who share their views. There is no doubt: The United States has a serious problem with pathological political delusions.”
Because the LEFT can simply apply that CT label to any subject inconvenient to their agenda, and they don’t have to debate the facts.
Is it cause real conspiracies are so common these days?
Why? The media used to do it’s job and investigate. Now they simply gas light.
We you can't trust the media (not that you ever could), you listen to the scuttlebutt.
Any one who is paying any attention to anything knows that that the Establishment is lying to us.
We may disagree about who is lying the most, but we know that we are lied to. Who trusts the news? Who trusts politicians? Who trusts big business? Everyone who is in a powerful position is trying to work all the angles to get some kind of desired outcome. And it seems that almost no one feels that lying is “wrong” anymore. Hey, if I can get away with it, it’s all good.
We have a social breakdown as we are lied to, as powerful people break the law with impunity, and as little people are crushed at will for minor infractions.
There’s not much “community” anymore. Just a lot of scared people who think Dark Forces are lining up against them. Because that’s the reality of our situation.
The facts show that there was a conspiracy between various members of the intelligence apparatus, the political elite, and media to destroy Donald Trump. What do you call a theory that is proven to be real?
Russia Russia Russia
Because there a so many liars.
The real reason for conspiracy theories is that there are so many conspiracies. The press and government lie all over the place. Then there are all the big tech censorship efforts. If they can’t disprove a conspiracy they simply suggest its validity by censoring it. Lets go no further than the food pyramid to show how science, media, big government and big business can endanger American’s health for a profit. If you need another excuse lets look at the Purdue family and their Purdue Pharma Company. Practically every doctor prescribed their drugs while courts defended the company and people died. Conspiracy theories exist because conspiracies are so big and obvious.
Let’s people feel like the chosen ones. And people love feeling chosen.
Our intelligence agencies are responsible for many of these — including the Q-nonsense — and the ones they’re not responsible for, they are all-too happy to promulgate and amplify any of those that help build and maintain their power structure.
Just take a look at the militarized zone of DC these days and you’ll know...
As I see it, the government has lost our TRUST, it has completely broken down and it is their fault. What else are people to do to understand events such as Hillary Clinton’s emails, the Benghazi lies and coverup, the Mueller investigation, the FISA abuse, the media’s complete loss of ethics and objectivity, the DEMS complicity with BLM AND ANTIFA and now a very questionable election.
Most Americans depend on the mainstream media to provide facts about what our government and leaders are doing, but it’s been clear for decades that
Its funny that QAnon is “debunked” while the Lincoln Project’s John Weaver was a practicing pedophile and now we find out it was common knowledge. Wouldn’t it help disprove QAnon if pedophiles would stop popping up in DC.
This goes back to what Trump talked about when he said that Fake News was the enemy of the people.
The REAL Reason Conspiracy Theories Are So Common
90 % of all news outlets are owned by (6) corporations and each one has an agenda.
Lets get to the heart of the matter.
What is a conspiracy? Legal, practical
Do not confuse conspiracy and conspiracy theory. Theories should be allowed to be proven.
One of the worst case guys I know, has never met a conspiracy theory he didn't like. But, he has to wear loafers because he isn't smart enough to tie his own shoes.
Well, let’s see, just in the past 18 years (time it takes for someone to reach adulthood), the Bush administration lied about Iraq with disastrous consequences, the Obama admin lied about everything under the sun, a minor bit of Russian activity before the 2016 elections was distorted by a coalition of thugs associated with those previous two administrations into something much more serious than it was, deep staters waged a 4-year long coup attempt, all kinds of powerful men in Hollywood, business, politics, etc. were exposed as creeps, thousands of more instances of sexual abuse in trusted institutions like the churches and schools were brought to light, and the list could go on for much longer than that.
So, yes, people still need to use discernment. Q is nonsense, for example. But it’s pretty dang obvious why people are spending time down the rabbit hole.