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The Cult of Conspiracy Theorism

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The Cult of Conspiracy Theorism

Conspiracy theories have gotten to a point where they appear almost exactly similar to religion, minus the deities.  These bizarre, sometimes very ridiculous ideas about the Illuminati, the Free Masons, the Jesuits, the Jews, Zionists, chemtrails, FEMA death camps with plastic coffins, and reptilian alien space invaders require an exceptional amount of faith to be believed in.  Let's take the conspiracy theory regarding a government cover up about how reptilian aliens are raping earth women to create a master race as our first example of how similar conspiracy theories are to religion.  First this reptilian alien conspiracy (from here on out it will be called the RAC) requires an exceptional amount of faith, there is no evidence to back up the theory, none at all.  People believe it on blind faith and on the words of "prophets" aka drug users, people who experience sleep paralysis, or those that may be experiencing visual hallucinations due to seizures, that swear they were abducted by the aliens and sexually assaulted or probed.  To the average individual this sounds illogical and silly, to the conspiracy theorist it sounds frightening and true.  Due to the fear and wanting to know more about the supposed RAC cover up the conspiracy theorists will buy books on the subject or products that will supposedly keep the aliens from beaming them up to a mothership.  Religion also uses fear based ideas to get people to follow an agenda and buy products.  The abrahamic religions are fine examples of fear based faith.  They say you're damned if you do not follow whatever denomination of Christianity, Islam, or Judaism they are trying to sell you.  They insist you buy holy scripture books to better know the faith and finally, many many religions are guilty of selling religious paraphernalia such as crosses, crucifixes, books on religion, rosaries, skullcaps, etc.  Those that push conspiracy theories on what i will refer to as the conspiracy sheep, usually try to sell a product, be it a book or a kit to avoid being stuck in a plastic FEMA coffin when the mass genocide finally comes knocking at your door.  These individuals are the televangelists of conspiracy theorism.  They preach to their conspiracy sheep flock who eat up the foolish fodder, never questioning whether or not it is logical.  That too is similar to religion, never questioning the faith.  If you question your faith, according to many denominations of the abrahamic religions, you're committing a sin.  When you question a conspiracy theory's validity you're called a sheep or a shill, depending.  Often these folks that easily believe whatever conspiracy theory is thrown at them will resort to name calling or making excuses for a lack of evidence when you question the theory's logic.  Often they will toss you bits of Photoshopped "evidence" or pictures that aren't doctored but whose contents are easily explained through scientific or engineering knowledge.  Many with religion also use Photoshopped images or easily explained images to try to prove the existence of their deities or of spirits.  The similarities between the theorist's thinking and the thinking of the highly religious cannot be ignored.  The cult of Conspiracy Theorism is growing daily and is becoming dangerous, much like radical christianity, radical judaism, and radical islam.

A very disturbing trend is coming out in the cult of Conspiracy Theorism and that trend has to do with the anti-vaccination movement and the anti-western medicine movement.  Neither campaign is based on sound scientific evidence but that doesn't keep the anti-vaxxers and the anti-western medicine individuals from pushing their own personal opinions on their children.  The death toll is rising from preventable diseases but the anti-vaxxers insist they're right despite concrete science telling them they're not.  Again, similarities to religion arise.  Many religious individuals will not abandon their faith or parts of their faith even if evidence is presented that states an aspect of their faith is totally erroneous, they will insist that they are right and the evidence is wrong.  These are dangerous lines of thinking.  Vaccinations do not cause autism.  The autism rate is rising in the US despite thimerosal (the mercury based component used in vaccines as a preservative that the conspiracy sheep believe is responsible for autism) being removed from most childhood vaccinations in 1999.  Thimerosal is still present in some flu and tetanus vaccines but one can request the vaccines that don't have it in them instead and those are not usually given to children unless there is a need for it.  Autism rates are most likely rising because of better diagnostics and quite possibly because of the parents' genetics.  The anti-vaccination argument is horribly flawed but people insist on believing it anyway.  The sad thing is that children are becoming victims, often getting sick or dying needlessly, and are being indoctrinated to believe blatant ignorance or in some cases, blatant idiocy.

Another somewhat dangerous conspiracy theory is the theory of chemtrails, which according to the conspiracy sheep, are the white vapor trails that come out of planes.  They believe the trails consist of dangerous chemicals that are designed to either purposely poison people in a depopulation measure or to purposely alter the weather (known as geo-engineering).  Those with any knowledge what so ever of planes know that they are condensation trails aka contrails that consist of water vapor and exhaust (hence the reason they come out white like clouds, please refer to the sources for more info on contrails).  While contrail exhaust can have an effect on climate, usually producing a warming trend, that trend varies and is not intentional.  What makes this theory about chemtrails dangerous is that people will use it as a distraction from more serious causes of global warming such as car exhaust and the burning of other fossil fuels and the depletion of forests, oceanic plant-life and wild lands.  The distraction is very similar to how the religious will say "oh, god did that" or "it's because of the devil".  By blaming the government and planes alone, the chemtrail conspiracy takes away personal responsibility for climate changes.  Note that most of the chemtrail conspiracy sheep still drive gas powered vehicles, travel by plane, and don't recycle or reuse items.  They are hypocrites to say the least but they insist that chemtrails are the sole reason why the weather is getting bizarre, they do not take personal responsibility or make a decent effort to reduce their own carbon footprint.  Very much like how the religious will blame the devil but continue to sin away because they can blame the devil for their own failings.  The depopulation end of this theory is a bit different that the geo-engineering end.  Those that believe the contrails are purposely filled with epic amounts of poison to be sprayed on the ignorant masses, oddly enough, still live.  There is no evidence or proof that the contrails are being used to depopulate (it would be very expensive and could definitely backfire on those doing the depopulating so it's not at all logical).  But as with the religious, they insist that a lack of evidence is evidence that there must be something going on.  

While in this small editorial i did not touch on the other conspiracies involving the Illuminati or Free Masons, they exist for almost the same reasons as the chemtrail conspiracy, to take away personal responsibility.  If people have something to blame then they feel they don't have enough power to take action and that is dangerous thinking.  That is fundamentalist religious thinking.  Blaming one or two groups for all the ills on the planet is like blaming god for an accidental plane crash.  It doesn't help the victims of the disaster, it doesn't solve the problem of fixing the destruction, it only lays blame and creates a lot of useless talk and noise with no action whatsoever.

In conclusion it is easy to see the vast amount of similarities between Conspiracy Theorism and real religion.  Neither much care for evidence, both will insist they're right even if evidence is presented stating otherwise and both can be incredibly dangerous in the wrongs hands.


Sources:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrail
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/co…
www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/Conc…
(a very awesome biological study database, totally recommended, just type in a key word like "vaccine" and you get oodles of studies) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
www.reptilianagenda.com
www.dictionary.com
Because i'm tired of having to explain to conspiracy theorists why the theories are either wrong or just stupid.  People are hurt by conspiracy theories but they grasp onto them like an evangelist grasps onto a bible when talking to a heathen.  It's disturbing as hell that people are that easily led and yet have the audacity to call the rest of us sheep or to tell us to "wake up".  I read the science, the studies, the articles, i keep up with what's being passed around, i search for evidence regularly and yet some people seem to think their opinions are gods and thus infallible even when evidence proves them fallible.  It's obnoxious.
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Disabled genocide is a conspiracy