Why has the JFK anniversary meant a push to get total buy-in on the Warren Report?

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99. Funny, because I see the conspiracy theories as engaging in the same magical thinking

that drives religion.

Both religion and the CTs are fact-bereft endeavors. Indeed, they are both conceits that need no factual basis to exist. Belief is all that's needed, and very often, belief in spite of evidence.

I had a discussion last week with a Christian on DU who believes in the virgin birth, even though they know the idea of the virgin birth of Jesus arises entirely on a mistranslation of a single verse in Isaiah. Yet that knowledge won't shake them off their "right" to believe in the virgin birth myth. For them, their belief overrides facts to the contrary, indeed, the very fact upon which they base their belief.

I see the same thing the JFK CTists, who - for instance - continue to cite the HSCA finding that the "evidence" contained on a Dictabelt recording proves a conspiracy in the JFK case, even though that evidence was falsified years ago and has been re-falsified countless times as new evidence has come to light that shows just how wrong the HSCA was.

But like you say, it's a religion.