Religious Belief And Conspiracy Theory.

[nailit]

I'm not talking about your average, liberal, God believer so I'll get that out of the way first.
Im talking about the evangelicals and fundamentalists.....

There seems to be a similar mindset between the conspiracy theorists and fundamental religious believers (Whether it be Christians, Muslims or others)
At the moment, we have the Covid deniers with their ideas that Covid is a scam designed so that the 'Elites' (whoever they are...Bill Gates etc) can take over and depopulate the world. Or inject us all with a microchip. Or enslave us all or whatever (Plus agenda 21, Georgia Guide stones etc)
Then we have the Fundy's who believe that we are in the end times and we will all receive the Marl of the Beast...666, Armageddon is upon us, Satan is let loose, 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse and so on.

Not all conspiracy theorists are religious
Not all religious are conspiracy theorists.

But there does seem to be a lot of overlap in the way of thinking.
Are conspiracy theorist drawn to these ideas in the same way that the religious fundamentalists are drawn to THEIR way of thinking?

Just throwing this out for discussion...
Thanks.

[Theland]

The, ''Mark Of The Beast,'' is already here and growing in use and in power.
We have a!ready established the fact that we are moving to a cashless society, .so the next move is to get rid of debit cards, and replace them with a QR reader on a smartphone.
We cannot buy or sell without the mark, so its easy to stop people accessing shops unless they have a QR code that reflects vaccination status, and that is the beginning.
China is far ahead with this technology, and their QR codes also reflect a, ''Social Credit,'' score, which means getting points for being a good citizen, points deducted for complaining against the authorities.
Smartphone + QR code = The Mark.

[naomi24]

^And speaking of conspiracy theories ..... no marks for you, Theland.

[Paigntonian]

Oh, God, not again.

[Theland]

I can but try ....,.

[Theland]

Regards my post at 21:-05 nobody actually says why they think I'm wrong.

[andy-hughes]

I think there is a common mindset shared by fervent religious followers and conspracy theorists.

I believe it is human nature to question what we don;t understand, and to look for a 'reason' for the enormous concepts that surround us.

The common factor is the need to 'ground' their thinking in something they can relate to, where the said enormous concepts are concerned.

The concept doesn't actually matter - it can be 'Why are we here?' to 'What created the universe' - from 'Who killed Kennedy?' to 'Why does Bill Gates want to take over the world?@

It's the grounding of such questions that is commont to both - either 'there is a god', or 'this is the reason for that.

The thinking, the conclusions, and the reasoning - are identically routed in a need to find a 'cause' because that is a comfort mechanism, it stops the worrier from worrying.

As someone who has no need or a 'god', or a 'theory' - I simply accept that things happen, and there may actually not be a 'reason', and if there is, clearly I don't need to know what it is in order to live a peaceful and happy life.

[Theland]

A view not shared by the funders, designers, builders and operators of the LHC.
But it takes all sorts doesn't it?
Wouldn't life be odious if we were all the same?