Christianity adds transcendent meaning to every human encounter. Many of our neighbors were lacking that in their lives and found it, perversely enough, through disease fear.
Just to chime in to offer an attempt at defending the conspiracy minded folks out there. If the reason they are all complicit in this groupthink business is because (a) they’ve been groomed via public/higher education and (b) been specifically selected over time by “big media” and if that coincides with (c) the purging of more independent minded individuals then perhaps the conspiracy label sticks. Albeit a slow generational one.
Just to chime in to offer an attempt at defending the conspiracy minded folks out there. If the reason they are all complicit in this groupthink business is because (a) they’ve been groomed via public/higher education and (b) been specifically selected over time by “big media” and if that coincides with (c) the purging of more independent minded individuals then perhaps the conspiracy label sticks. Albeit a slow generational one.