Conspiracy Theory Worship in the Guise of Explanation

by John Jay Ponce

Since the beginning of recorded history tales come down of conspiracy. Often these covered the universally inexplicable occurrences of natural cataclysms, eclipses, seasonal changes and other matters for which scientific knowledge had yet to be developed. Graven gods conspired to trick, despoil, kill, maim and discourage humankind in cultures as diverse as Australian aborigines and the Eskimos. Prayer went to these images in hope that their toying with humans would not be too severe nor their angers too great.

Native Americans are blessed with a tradition of belief in the conspiracy of such god/animals as Coyote, Crow and Bear to confuse and frustrate people.

In the passage of time, with deeper collective reasoning and the accumulation of observed and predictable phenomena, culture -- especially Western culture -- dismissed the naturalistic conspiracies in favor of worshipping in two directions: toward a supernatural God of judgment, redemption and benevolence, and toward the natural predictability of scientific results.

Something in human nature, however, remained desirous of affixing blame for unexpected defeats and setbacks upon conspiracies that were god-like in reach, but manufactured out of the management of earthly, human knowledge. With the coming of the Information Age, beginning with the cheap-and-quick dissemination of ideas spread by the printing press, the time it took to develop and broadcast a "conspiracy theory" shrank from months and years -- even generations -- to virtually days and hours.

As inexpensive printing brought Western man out of a history of being woefully uninformed about what occurred, it also brought him into a future of rapidly spread conjecture about why they occurred.

The recent passage of Britain's Princess Diana in a horrific automobile accident is but the latest of occurrences for which a "conspiracy theory" bloomed overnight -- actually much quicker, thanks to the new capability of instantaneous "publication" of conjecture on the internet. Diana's death, I have read on the 'net, was a conspiracy of MI6 (Britain's "secret" secret intelligence bureau), the "Merovingians" (the "rightful" Roman Catholic rulers of Europe and Britain, descended not only from Charlemagne, but directly from the bloodline of Jesus Christ), and, sometimes including subterranean cabals that ally with either of the foregoing, and sometimes even involving the Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, the Bilderbergers (an all-knowing council, a century old, through which ruling royalty and wealth reign) and Bill Clinton.

The latter involved a Merovingian "union" of Great Britain and North America (shades of Orwell in 1984) to be based upon, somehow, marrying Clinton (purported to be a "bastard" of a Rockefeller) to Diana, whose family of Spencer allegedly traces its roots to a semi-royal pro-Merovingian past that predates the current Windsor Throne by 500 years, with the prospect of Diana not only being Queen Mother in London but Queen Stepmother in the U.S. (it often gets quite tricky to follow conspiracies, requiring a great deal of mental gymnastics and Olympic-record leaps of faith).

The foregoing conspiracy asks its adherents to believe that responsibility for Diana's death lie with MI6, the CIA, the French Secret Service, the Israeli Mossad (?!), the Pope (??!!) or a sort-of NATO-exercises combination, owed to Diana's refusal to "marry" Bill because she had fallen in love with the pure and knightly Dodi El-Fayed. The foregoing warrior agencies or offices (yes, the Pope does have an army) accomplished the killing with Chinese puzzle-box intricacy BECAUSE the rightful Merovingian Throne of England (???!!!) should not be blasphemed by a future ruler (Prince Wills) whose step-grandaddy was a dreaded Muslim Egyptian related to Arab princes (El Fayed, pere).

(You see...you see....)

Of course, "earthly" conspiracies do take place. Mark Antony DID conspire with Brutus against Caesar. Judas DID conspire with the Sanhedrin against Jesus (the most rare of instances, where an "earthly" conspiracy fulfilled a Biblical Prophecy), Benedict Arnold DID conspire with the British against the Continental Army (conspiracy theories are replete with turncoats).

However, the quickening pace of "believing" conspiracy theories, again, aided by ever-rapid communication of conjecture, is an issue that must be considered by the moderns. Conspiracy theorists would have us believe that John F. Kennedy was assassinated (no, not assassinated, merely wounded and hidden away...?) by either the American Right or by disgruntled Mafiosi, that Pearl Harbor's attack was permitted (encouraged...?) by Franklin Roosevelt in order to hasten U.S. entry into Asia's World War II, that Neil Armstrong did NOT take that "step" upon the Moon, that something now fuzzily referred to as "the New World Order" (CFR) wholesale controls all American politics (every President from FDR through Clinton, ignoring eight years of Ronald Reagan), that "black helicopters" packed tightly with blue-bereted U.N. troops looking something like "Malaysians" regularly patrol the perimeter of Yellowstone National Park, that AIDS was developed by the CIA in order to terrorize and liquidate homosexuals, that crack cocaine was developed by the CIA in order to terrorize and liquidate impoverished African-Americans.

At the birth of most conspiracy theories is the conceit, the vanity that the individual or group to which the seemingly inexplicable has occurred is the CENTRAL character around which all else revolves in attention. There would be no "Kennedy theories" if John F. Kennedy had not been deified by core followers and much of the public; no "Diana theory" if a similar, goddess crown had not been placed upon her brow.

The issue of concern is not that these conspiracy theories carry coin in this age -- after all, it is the era of irresponsibility for the seemingly inexplicable, personified by the "victimization" playlets performed daily on daytime talk TV -- but that conspiracy theories occupy so much of the modern psyche, inflame and impassion vanities, to the point of pushing out faith in empirical data and Faith in God.

The task of the enlightened...the TRULY enlightened...is to return to mankind's roots and winnow the wheat from the chaff, ponder but disgorge the indigestible. The repugnant vanity of, in any manner, conferring deity-like status upon the mere mortality of FDR, JFK, Diana, the Rockefellers, Clinton or the U.N. as a ruling entity, must be repudiated at every chance.

Only mankind, humans as individuals washed in the fount of Faith for God, exist among the peoples. God has ordained that the ability of these individuals to bind in conspiracy against His larger Plan will not be permitted. With Faith in His omniscience, I commend the following from Psalms 2:1-2 (KJV):

"Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed..."

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