My Thoughts On Why Christians Shouldn't Dabble Into Conspiracy Theories

When I was newly saved, I remembered how fascinated I was with conspiracy theories especially when it's about the Vatican's secret activities. As much as I believe that the Vatican indeed controls much of the world's affairs directly and indirectly, that the Jesuits are indeed influential, that the Vatican really had a huge slice of guilt from several wars across the world but there's really one huge problem. When one puts exposing the Vatican in front of the Bible or engaging in various conspiracy theories. The moment I just kept dabbling into conspiracy theories became that very moment when I was driven into paranoia and bitterness. I was more focused on the Devil's activities than the grace that drives out the Devil from people. 

It's possible to go and speculate this and that were done by the Jesuits, Opus Dei, Illuminati or whatever secret power there's in. When you're beaten up by the border patrol, that person is not necessarily ordered by the Jesuits or the Illuminati. Sometimes, the people assigned to that job is just plain abusive. Some criminal gangs are just independent from the Vatican or the Illuminati and working on their own. To just keep assuming everything to the Illuminati or the Vatican can also be bearing false witness with or without knowing it. Plus, it's a major source of paranoia that can keep Christians from witnessing to the lost.

Christians involved in conspiracy theories can make poor witnesses out of them. It can happen that when they discuss with Roman Catholics, they end up talking about the Jesuits' crimes or the Vatican's crimes instead of the Gospel and refuting Roman Catholic doctrine. I remembered how often I obsessed myself with the crimes that the Jesuits and the Roman Catholic institution are doing instead of focusing on how to win them to Christ. Instead of finding testimonies of former Jesuit priests who are now Christians by God's grace, many of them get involved with finding more and more about the Jesuit's secret activities as if that's the Gospel message. 

If one has to become an effective witness then one should really drop off the conspiracy theories business entirely. It's difficult to prove assumptions like Jesuit Superior General Adolfo Nicholas manipulated the votes to get Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio (Pope Francis) to be elected as the first Pope to have graduated from the Jesuit Order. While it's highly possible but that's not the Gospel. The focus has always been preaching the Gospel to the lost. Tell them about the fact they're sinners, that they can't save themselves, refute whatever assumptions they have instead of focusing on the confused mind of a conspiracy theorist. The lost person needs to hear the Gospel with both the bad news first and the good news next. Talking about the Vatican's activities to the Roman Catholic may end up derailing any potential for that person to listen to the truth. 

The world of conspiracy theorists also follow a lot of logical fallacies which ultimately lead to illogical conclusions. Instead of focusing on the Bible as the standard for right and wrong, these people end up using the "easy way out" which makes them quote the Bible out of context. You end up having guilt by association, false dilemma, character assassination, ad hominem and nom sequitur to name a few which leads to faulty conclusions. If your arguments are not built on solid truth then how can the conclusion even be considered to be feasible in the first place? It's just impossible because illogical assumptions always lead to illogical conclusions.

The world of conspiracy theories is best said, "You write and write and you don't prove anything. Sometimes, you're not even aware your own lies are deceiving you. You listen and you listen and you don't even know if everything's true. The lies of others may be deceiving you and you don't know it."