A connection between conspiracy theories and faith?

[NNadir]

I came across this lecture by the author who questions the historical existence of Jesus, surely a controversial subject, but one on which he has an interesting commentary.

Toward the end of the lecture, there is reference to Roswell and conspiracy theories that I personally found fascinating, given our times, where he muses about what might happen to the Roswell conspiracy if society collapsed.

The lecture itself is fascinating, but this portion in 2021 seems very relevant, particularly with the mainstreaming of conspiracy theories and a possible violent collapse of culture as a result. (The lecture was given in 2017.)

[brewens]

1. I've said for years that Christianity is not just Christianity. More like a branch off the tree of

all religions people ever came up with.

In the ancient world, there were people getting around who knew details about even more ancient history that we'll never know. They knew some of the tricks that had always been used to control people.

I thought for years that Joseph Smith and the Mormons are like someone set up a lab experiment showing how the scam could be repackaged and worked again.

[magicguido]

2. Just as they now await the ressurection of JFK Jr; replicating precisely what happened in the past

[LiberalLovinLug]

3. All religion has its origins in Sun Worship

The twelve apostles surrounding the Son.

This format was repeated in a few different ancient religions before Christianity.

The twelve months of the year. And a symbol of a circle divided into 4, the 4 seasons, which was the common Cross symbol early on. Because the Sun was so important for crops and harvesting.

At some point it evolved to deifying the sun, into the Son. So a privileged group could control the population. It was co-oped which is what this person is concentrating on.

Its pretty simple and clear, and not that complicated to see its origins. And its fascinating to see how many tangents and denominations humankind came up with from that base belief. How elaborate some of the ceremony is, especially in the high catholic church. The God part of the brain makes us waste a lot of time.