Two categories of conspiracy theorists
There really are two broad categories of so-called conspiracy theorists.
1. The ones who see only 'parts' and can't see the whole. They are focused on many parts, flitting about from one to another, until they might begin to have a special pet peeve and so reduce everything into a box called by the name of that pet peeve (Jews, Jesuits, Freemasons, Illuminati, etc.). I.e. they engage in reductionist thinking where anything that doesn't fit into their box then becomes sort of non-existent. Confirmation bias is the leading fallacy.
2. Then you have the ones who can see the parts in relation to the whole (which is a classic definition of understanding in itself). These by definition are going to be Christians. Real Christians. Not church Christians, for the most part, but real Christians. Christians who can see the spiritual battlefield. The 'whole' they are able to see and to reconcile all the myriad parts into is God's plan of redemption as revealed in the Old and New Testaments. They can see that the Devil goes by many names and wears many different hats (all those 'parts' type 1 sees) but nevertheless is still the Devil manifesting Satanic spirit, attributes, and deeds. They may have a more difficult time defining the good (some will say liberty, being in covenant with God, prosperity, and obviously if Christian evangelism and sanctification, etc.).
So category 2 is able to have the bigger vision and truer vision, potentially.
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