My Memory of 9/11 Conspiracy Theories

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I remembered 9/11 or the fall of the World Trade Center (WTC) happened 20 years ago. The death of Osama bin Ladin happened 10 years ago. Now, I think about how I got engrossed in conspiracy theories from reading Chick Publications, Jesus-is-Savior, and Conspiracy Planet to name a few of the many. 9/11 was certainly a big event that shook the world. The genocide caused by two suicide bombers and the deaths caused by those trapped in the building was no joke. Then it invited discussion for conspiracy theorists (such as Cutting Edge Ministries and End Times Updates) to discuss about it. Not surprisingly, many of them supported the "testimony" of the late Alberto R. Rivera as a genuine man of God. Back then, I still supported Rivera as a hero of the faith and dismissed any accusation against him as "Jesuit-manufactured".

I could remember the time when I was trapped in the nightmare world of Chick Publications. The "Alberto" comic book series was very fascinating. It was a portal to the world of anti-Catholic conspiracy theories. It had a view that the Vatican controlled almost every world events, that the Jesuits are arranging many of the world's disasters, that there's the Illuminati, and so on. The 9/11 incident was not even a bit spared from the nightmare world of conspiracy theories. You may want to try checking out the assumptions made by that sex offender David J. Stewart of Jesus-is-Savior if you have time. Most of them are now laughable to me.

There's a bit of the fascination that you might get. There are some loose claims that I believed but I now dismiss. You can get this kind of narrative such as:
Did you know that 9/11 was a Jesuit scheme? Did you know that Bush and Bin Ladin serve the same masters? Did you know that the U.S. Government was in cahoots with the Al Qaida? 

The kind of narrative can easily intrigue the mind. It's almost as amusing as Rivera's claim in "The Prophet" that the Vatican supposedly created Islam. I also used to believe it but years later, some research will prove that Islam came from the Ebionites! Muhammad's wife Khadijah was a member of the Ebionite cult in the Middle East - a cult that denied the deity of Christ as much as Islam! Yet, I bought the narrative and made Rivera's "fantastic revelations" the center of it all! It provided a not healthy view which results in one speculation after the other.

I believe one of the biggest falsehoods I believe is that 9/11 was really the work of the Bush Administration. The whole argument that "Bush just sat there!' is becoming rather old. I think Stewart's viewers are usually based on his assumptions. Another was that Patrick Scrivener of Reformation Online had also some weird views such as a scheduled destruction. Yet, the more I look at them, the more I realize that they're nothing more than a series of wild assumptions than the truth. 

The publications End Times Updates even went as far as to create a diagram of what could lead to the New World Order. It says that 9/11 was just the beginning. Then the plan was to disarm the Middle East. Then there was a series of events that would lead to the New World Order. I bet a lot of Christians (or people who thought they were) were probably hyped that the Rapture could hit any time soon. Eventually, some fake Rapture dates came to place such as May 21, 2011, and the infamous December 21, 2012, Rapture date. 

Fortunately, David W. Cloud of Way of Life Literature has a healthier view. There's nothing we can do even if 9/11 was really an Illuminati or Jesuit plot to destabilize the world. Some world disasters happen with our without the Jesuits. For example, some disasters just happen without the Vatican or the Illuminati involved. Another is that God is still in control in the midst of all these disasters. The conspiracy claims have very little to no proof of their claims of the hidden agenda. The 9/11 conspiracy theories are a huge distraction from the real mission of soulwinning.

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