Conspiracy Theory

We seem to always be hearing about conspiracy theories these days, that there is a conspiracy behind this, or there is a conspiracy behind that. A couple of months ago, I was at home with nothing to do, and found a movie titled "Signs", which was one of Mel Gibson's movies, and at one point there sitting on the coutch Gibson asks another character "is it possible that there are no coincidences?
Are there really no accidents, or do you believe that people just get lucky?" or words to that effect.
This is a significant point because so much hinges on whether or not there is a purpose behind many of the events that happen in our world. The point being that if we really believe in the supernatural, if we really believe that there is a God who created all things, and that there is a devil seeking the ruin of souls and the corruption of all things, can we really believe that anything is vain, or happens for no purpose? Is it possible that everything just happens for the sake of happening?

Alluding once again to popular culture, there comes to mind the series "The X-files" with two principle characters Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, where Mulder is always convinced that something behind the scenes is taking place, and is always contending with Skully's sckeptical outlook, that there really is a supernatural, but that Skully is always looking for some reason to explain the unexplainable. Strangely enough, if one took that sckeptical outlook and applied it to everything, one would eventually come to believe in a supernatural, that there is a reason for everything, rather, that if Skully took her skepticism far enough, that she would go full circle and end up with Mulder's unquestioning belief in the supernatural. If one believed that there is a reason for everything, that everything can be explained logically, that the most logical thing to do would be to form an logical explanation, and skully simply did not make it the other side of the circle sooner becaue she would not accept Mulder's explanation of the events, even though she herself could find no logical explanation, she defied her own logic in that she would not accept the logic that was present in Mulder's views, she was being illogical because she would not hear logic, if for the sole reason that she would have to admit error and concede to that which she refused to accept.

There is currently in the world two types of people: those who believe in a reason for everything, and those who believe that everything is chaotic and serves no purpose.
There are those who believe in a God, or gods, who believe that that divine entity, and/or entities, created all of that which surrounds us. Then there is he who believes in no God, or any entity, and that everything just naturally comes together as it has and will continue in that fashion.
Those who believe in a God, who has a purpose for this creation, must believe in a conspiracy, a scheme for all of creation, that there is a reason for all of the things that occur in this world.
Here we will focus on the one who believes in God and a reason for all that has happened.

The most common belief of a creator that we are bound to run into in this age in the USA is that of Christianity. In Christianity we believe that there is an omnipotent God who created all things, and that this God also created beings called angels. They believe that a certain one of these desired to be like the Creator, and thus led some of these beings against the Creator.
Christians call this being the devil, and those mutinous angels demons, thus illustrating two opposing forces - those of the Creator [God from here on] and those of the devil. Those who believe in Christianity and the existence of this devil believe in a conspiracy, and they must or cease to be a Christian for the sole purpose that they would not longer fit the definition of such, that this devil conspired against God and His designs.

Presently there are many conspiracy theories, and most of them are pretty far-fetched, compiled by curious minds who inquire into certain events and conclude that such events occurred because someone willed that events should happen in that manner - a conspiracy theory, it's wacky because they attempt like Skully to insert their own opinions and logic into the theory to help it make sense, but then, only to themselves, thus, the larger number of them are senseless to the majority of mankind, and are probably not true for the reason that there are better explanations, and ones that better be labelled a theory because it can be tested, otherwise, it could only be called a "conspiracy hypothesis", because it is only a theory when it can be tested, and also usually requires a precedent, that the thing in question actually has happened before, helps to substantiate a theory, and can thus provide a basis for such a theory, because since history repeats itself, could happen again, or rather, could be happening again. But mainly, one must try to stick with the one that is most credible, or that really can be tested, and when fully considered leads back to the source of all things, if it is good, as all truth must, and that is God, otherwise, if it is erroneous, one can be almost certain that it proceeds from another, more ominous entity.

God created Man, and placed him in a place of Paradise with Himself, and gave man free will.
In this paradise, at some point, the devil appeared and tempted man to disobey God, it was a conspiracy, the devil told man that God had lied, and that man would not die if he disobeyed God, and that there was a conspiracy against him to take away his liberties, to restrict him. In fact it was the other way around, it was the devil who was conspiring against God, using man, His creation, as one of his tools for such. For man's disobedience God cast man from this paradise and into the world that we know now. Thus any Christian who believes in the above, as many do, and also in the devil must believe in a conspiracy theory since it necessarily follows that all events happen because one of the two above described forces are in some way or another involved in the unfolding of events in this world.

God loved his creation, and desired to redeem man from his fate, and sent His Son [Christ from now on] as a redeemer to redeem man from the dominion of the devil. Christ died for the salvation and redemption of man from the devil and his realm, and founded a Church through which all men could now come to obtain the benefits of this redemption. The devil continued in his mutiny against God and His Church. so now we still have conspiracies, the conspiracy of the devil to use all of his means against the Church of Christ [see the St. Michael Prayer].

There are certain societies and groups who have assaulted, and continue to assault, this Church, most notably the Freemasons. It is believed that there was a freemasonic conspiracy to subvert the Church from within, and during the reign of Leo XIII it became known that some of these Freemasons had worked their way all the way to the top of its hierarchy. On October 9, 1958, Pope Pius XII died, and soon a conclave began that would decide the identity of the next Pontiff. This is the crux of this conspiracy, that these masons who had worked their way to the top of the hierarchy would work to place one of their men on the Apostolic See, who would then work to destroy the Church from within. A few days later an event happened that remains controversial, but that it was announced that a Pope had been chosen by the conclave, and then that they were unsure, and then again the announcement that a Cardinal had been chosen, and then again uncertainty as the color of smoke changed again.
Finally, not long after that, a man walked out onto the balcony attired as a Pope who took the title of John XXIII. The conspiracy was that a man had been chosen Pope who was not Roncalli, and was forced to abdicate, and that another Cardinal, Cardinal Siri, had been elected instead of Roncalli.

Roncalli [John XXIII] convoked an ecumenical Council which opened in 1962, and this council worked many changes in the Church, including the sacraments, the interpretation of dogma, a complete overhaul of everything was committed by this council. The conspiracy was that Siri and the Council were part of a Freemasonic plot against the Church, to destroy it from within, and that John XXIII, and his successors were not valid Popes of the Catholic Church, but anti-Popes elected in an uncanonical fashion. During the implementation of these changes by the Council, certain men in the curia saw the contradictions with traditional Catholic doctrine, and drew up a critical study of the new liturgy invented by the council, that study was called the Ottaviani Intervention, named after the principle signer Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani.
This is questioned and dismissed by the majority of people nowadays because it is what it is - a Conspiracy Theory. But the point is that it is questioned by those who believe, those who believe in a God and in a devil, but it seems ludicrous to them because it is a conspiracy theory.
We live in a world that does not believe in conspiracy theories, a world that does not believe in God, or in a devil, and thus, they dismiss anything of the sort, including evil and conspiracies.
The idea that the Vatican could ever fall under the control of the Freemasons seems so unlikely to them that it is simply not possible, but to dismiss such is to dismiss the concept of the devil, to dismiss the fact that this entity seeks the destruction of Christ's Church, that he would never make such an attempt to destroy it as a parasite from within. But for those who do believe, who do believe that there is a conspiracy of the powers of darkness against the Church of Christ, this does not appear too far off the wall, but is in fact a possibility, and for some, even a reality.
What is certain is that what happened between 1958 and 1969 did result in a mass apostasy from the Church, tens of thousands of priests did leave their vocation, hundreds of thousands of religious did leave their houses and flock to the secular realm, Things did turn for the worse, and many evil things have resulted since then, and these facts must be admitted.