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People with limited horizons tend to go for small and utterly implausible conspiracy theories. Blokes with some theory about the assassination of JFK are a dime a dozen. And for just that reason, they tend eventually to cancel each other out, leaving me simplistically thinking Lee Harvey Oswald was a trained marksman and a jerk who got up in a tall building and shot the president.
For much the same reason, I don't put any stock at all in conspiracy theories that range from "Roosevelt Flew the Lead Plane at Pearl Harbor" to "Bush and Mossad Phoned the Jews at the World Trade Center on 9/10 and Informed Them of Their Nefarious Plan." I don't believe Building 7 was dynamited by the CIA. I don't think fluoridation was a Commie Plot.
I believe in almost no conspiracies except the Cosmic One. The reason I believe in that one is because God says it's real:
For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places (Eph 6:12).
I do not believe this merely because God has revealed it to be so. No, I believe it because it also explains so many things that would otherwise be inexplicable.
Consider these mysteries:
- Why would NOW spend all its time fretting about the mythical imposition of "theocracy" in America by those bogeymen, the conservative Christians, yet remain stone silent about the threatened horse-whipping of a British woman in the Sudan for the horrific crime of naming a teddy bear Mohammed?
- Why would an atheist set out to write a book for children that undermines Christianity and wind up writing a book that says not that God doesn't exist, but that he does exist and is evil? Why would that same author be obsessed with the wickedness of authoritarian despotism in the name of religion, and yet focus all his hatred at "Yahweh, El, the Father" and never so much as mention "Allah"?
- Why would the media do much the same, walking on eggshells regarding a few satirical Danish cartoons to avoid harming the sensitivities of savages and various "youths" who bear a strangely uniform religious identity, while lecturing Christians offended by Piss Christ to learn art appreciation?
These and many other strange contradictions in our culture are explicable by only one thing. It's not "follow the money," and it's not about sex or power.
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