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Christendonian777
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Before I start off, I want to thank Catholic Answers for being a huge factor in allowing me to keep my faith in a time when it was fading. Even though I’m not Catholic myself, it helped me retain my Christianity, and might actually play a role in a likely Catholic conversion if that were to ever happen.
There are some things, though, that seem to constantly make me change my position on how I view the world through the lense of faith. During my research into Christianity, I was brought up around mostly two specific groups of people. 1) Fundamentalist Protestants, the type who put major emphasis on Biblical prophecy and Armageddon, and 2) Anti-Vatican II Catholics who are strongly traditionalist and believe everything post Vatican II is a Masonic corruption of Catholicism.
Being brought up around this group of people, conspiracies became intwined in my theology. I began to believe that Satanists control the entertainment industry and that pedo and cannibalistic activities are practiced by them, that the government is controlled by anti-Christian forces who want to push the LGBT agenda and cultural Marxism, that the Israeli Zionists are the “Synagogue of Satan” as talked about in the New Testament, that people such as presidents like Clinton, Bush, Obama, etc are Luciferians who are working toward a New World Order and follow the bidding of the Rothschild family dynasty, and that Vatican II is a Masonic infiltration of the Catholic Church and every Pope since then is a heretic. These conspiracy theories, among many more.
A couple months ago, I began to rationalize my views and did a reset on everything I believed in, after I accepted that the Holocaust was real (Holocaust denial was one of the things I subscribed too), and felt good for about 2 weeks until I remembered how badly conspiracies had shaped my view of Christianity. I want to live and not have to be focused on fringe theories and ideas that make no sense when the evidence is all put together, but it’s so ingrained into my theology, that I feel that if I were to shrug off some of these things as being ridiculous, it would be a blow at my faith itself.
Can anyone help me out with this? It’s been on my mind for the longest time now. Thank you for the help.
There are some things, though, that seem to constantly make me change my position on how I view the world through the lense of faith. During my research into Christianity, I was brought up around mostly two specific groups of people. 1) Fundamentalist Protestants, the type who put major emphasis on Biblical prophecy and Armageddon, and 2) Anti-Vatican II Catholics who are strongly traditionalist and believe everything post Vatican II is a Masonic corruption of Catholicism.
Being brought up around this group of people, conspiracies became intwined in my theology. I began to believe that Satanists control the entertainment industry and that pedo and cannibalistic activities are practiced by them, that the government is controlled by anti-Christian forces who want to push the LGBT agenda and cultural Marxism, that the Israeli Zionists are the “Synagogue of Satan” as talked about in the New Testament, that people such as presidents like Clinton, Bush, Obama, etc are Luciferians who are working toward a New World Order and follow the bidding of the Rothschild family dynasty, and that Vatican II is a Masonic infiltration of the Catholic Church and every Pope since then is a heretic. These conspiracy theories, among many more.
A couple months ago, I began to rationalize my views and did a reset on everything I believed in, after I accepted that the Holocaust was real (Holocaust denial was one of the things I subscribed too), and felt good for about 2 weeks until I remembered how badly conspiracies had shaped my view of Christianity. I want to live and not have to be focused on fringe theories and ideas that make no sense when the evidence is all put together, but it’s so ingrained into my theology, that I feel that if I were to shrug off some of these things as being ridiculous, it would be a blow at my faith itself.
Can anyone help me out with this? It’s been on my mind for the longest time now. Thank you for the help.
Thanks!