Quote (IceMage @ 10 Jun 2016 21:55)
That's why no Christians here take you seriously.
Check out this 2014 study titled the" Conspiracy Theories and the Paranoid Style(s) of Mass Opinion" published in the American Journal of Political Science.
Religous people were more likely to believe in conspiracy theories:
"...a propensity to attribute the source of unexplained or extraordinary events to unseen, intentional forces (Shermer 1997). In psychological studies, this tendency is often found in supernatural, paranormal, or religious beliefs (Boyer 2001; Norenzayan and Hansen 2006; Tobacyk and Milford 1983)."and
"Not only does half of the American population agree with at least one conspiracy from a short list of conspiracy theories offered, but also large portions of the population exhibit a strong dispositional inclination toward believing that unseen, intentional forces exist and that history is driven by a Manichean struggle between good and evil, particularly in the high proportion of Americans who believe we are living in biblical “end times.”The study doesn't suggest there is necessarily causal link between being relugous and believing in conspiracy theories but rather they are linked by a common way of thinking.
That's also not to say that every religous person believes in many conspiracy theories or that every conspriacy theorists is relgious. This is clearly and obviously not true.