Saturday, May 09, 2020

Christians Are Not Immune to Conspiracy Theories UPDATED


In the beginning, God planted a garden in the east, in Eden, and there he put Adam and Eve. Soon after Satan entered the garden and spread the first conspiracy theory.

A conspiracy theory explains an event or set of circumstances as the result of a secret plot, usually by powerful conspirators. Satan convinced Eve that the most powerful of “conspirators”—the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—were secretly trying to keep the first humans from having their eyes opened in a way that would make them “like God, knowing good and evil.” Eve became the first in a long line, from Gnostics to flat-earthers, to believe powerful forces were withholding secret information.

Since then, Satan has found no shortage of marks among God’s children. But our current technological age has made it possible for conspiracy theories to spread faster than the novel coronavirus. The online realm, which can promote anti-intellectualism and radical individualism, has become a breeding ground for such bizarre conspiracies. Read More

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The proliferation of conspiracy theories, false narratives, misinformation, and cognitive distortion characterizes what I call "the pandemic of denial" which has accompanied the COVID-19 pandemic not only in the United States but also in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. People prefer to believe half truths and outright lies rather than to face reality, particular when these falsehoods support their preexisting biases in regards to the origin of the virus, its severity, and the like and absolve them of their contribution to the spread of the virus. If we have any hope of saving lives and safeguarding communities, we must battle the pandemic of denial as well as the virus pandemic.

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