5 Reasons Why Connie Doesn't 'Spiracy

    This may cost me both my followers but:

1. I do not have the required high view of human nature. I think most people who believe in conspiracies are pessimists--people are not only bad, but THEY (conspiracies require a THEY) all get together to organize bad things--although that shows pessimism on my part. I am actually an optimist, but I do not think most unsaved people are capable of the selfless devotion it requires to pull off a conspiracy. Military operations excepted. Not to equate them by putting them together, but both Christians and terrorists believe their unselfish devotion will be rewarded in the afterlife--terrorists by selfish rewards, Christians by rewards to give back to Christ. But the faithless are trying to get their reward here on earth. Most people, if given an opportunity to support self interest or a cause, eventually choose self. 
2. I do not have enough imagination to see order in chaos of events like the current Covid crisis. Does this look organized to you? Did the CDC plan to inspire obedience from the populace by contradicting their own recommendations numerous times? Did they think people would accept a vaccine (with implanted tracking devices, sterilizers, cancer causers, _______) by protocols that imply it doesn't even work? If the Left developed Covid to force everyone to unquestioningly obey the government, it isn't working. If there is a conspiracy to hide Chinese responsibility for Covid, it isn't working either. If the liberals hope the virus will kill off the conservatives, why are they complaining that we are not getting vaccinated? If Trump supported the vaccine, why would the people who hate him get it and his followers refuse it? Do skeptics who won't take an "experimental" vaccine really place that much confidence in the FDA approval process?  
3. Conclusions usually support the premise they started out with. We filter our observations through a paradigm. People whose paradigm is plots and conspiracies will always find them. My mother was a schizophrenic, which is like having a Master's Degree in conspiracies. Since I was a child when her mental illness began, I needed an objective standard by which to evaluate whether the things she said were true. The paradigm I chose was logic. Star Trek's Mr. Spock was my childhood hero. When evaluated by questions like those above, most conspiracies cannot make it through my logic filter. I would, however, have great respect for a speaker/program that admitted, okay we were wrong about that, WITHOUT launching into the next conspiracy.
   
4. I am not old enough yet. Although there are many exceptions (I married one and gave birth to another) I have found older people are more likely to believe in conspiracies, maybe because the world they knew has changed so much. Even my Dad, who held out for more than 90 years, is now using the "C" word. Most 70-80 year old saints also believe the Lord is coming back any minute, probably because most of us fear, not death, but the process of dying. However, looking for that blessed hope is good thing. But I gave my kids permission to call me on it later in life if I drift into the "C" section.
5. God is sovereign. Not semi-sovereign. Not sorta sovereign. Not sovereign-ish. Men may be evil and have evil plans ultimately inspired by the Evil One, but they will not succeed. It is good to know our enemy and what believers are up against, but God does not want his people to be well informed fear mongers. Why do the Devil's job for him? If believing in conspiracies causes someone to trust God more, that is wonderful, but that is not the emphasis of the conspiracy programs I have heard. It is easier to attract followers (and funds) by fear than faith. Pessimistic, but true. Covid coverage capitalizes on that. If what I am listening to leads me to doubt God, it is sin for me. (Rom. 14:23) I am not focusing on the fearful things happening around me because I have read to the end of the book. John did not write it in pencil in case God's plan doesn't work out. God is not biting his anthropomorphic fingernails worrying about the schemes of man, He is laughing at them. (See Ps. 2) There are no alternate endings for Revelation. Conspiracies notwithstanding (a very fitting description), our side wins.