April 5th 2021

CONSPIRITUAL CONSPIRACIES

I’m a huge fan of the Jason Bourne franchise. In the first instalment, Jason eventually becomes aware of a CIA conspiracy to assassinate uncooperative international political figures called Operation Treadstone. But unlike many of the internet conspiracy theories that have been flying around lately, Jason has good reasons to believe that Treadstone was more than just a theory, because he discovered that he was central to it, and interacted directly with its proponents. That is, Jason engaged with the ‘primary sources’ of an actual conspiracy which enabled him to verify it. This is also what I would like to encourage all those who too quickly (and too easily) embrace the various conspiracies that are going ‘viral’ on the internet. But it’s not necessarily all of the variations speculating about government conspiracies that most concerns me. My greatest pastoral concern for believers is for those ‘spiritual’ conspiracies which invoke faulty interpretations of Bible prophecies—particularly based on the Book of Revelation being promoted on the various social-media platforms which are demonstrably wrong and warrant being categorised as con-spiritual conspiracies…[Continue reading the full article] 

–Dr. Andrew Corbett