How can we as followers of Christ understand and respond to conspiracy theories in a faithful and critical way?
How can we, as Anabaptists and Mennonites who desire to resist violence, see through the deceptive temptations of conspiracy theories and their promotion of enmity?
How can we distinguish between the distorted visions of conspiracy theories and the divine conspiracies that we believe are happening, and in which we participate, where we work together for good and God in our shared world?
“If we look at the most sweeping conspiracy theories, they insist that nothing happens by accident; nothing is as it seems; and that everything is connected. Yet these salient characteristics are strikingly similar to the features of many religious belief systems. To be sure, this is not to say that religions are conspiracy theories, only that there are structural similarities that sometimes lead them to join hands.” - Michael Barkun
