Conspiracies sell because trust is dead. Americans didn’t suddenly decide to question everything they were pushed into it.
Years of government deception, media gaslighting, and Big Tech censorship have driven ordinary people into the arms of alternative commentators.
In this episode, Dr. Marcus Peter unpacks how figures like Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, and Alex Jones have risen to prominence by tapping into legitimate public frustration, only to turn it into an intoxicating mix of false certainty and outrage.
Dr. Peter traces the collapse of trust through the Biden administration’s media cover-ups, the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, and the endless COVID reversals that turned yesterday’s “misinformation” into today’s verified facts.
He then explains why conspiracy thinking feels so good and also why it’s so dangerous. These movements offer neat, emotionally satisfying answers in a world that rarely gives them.
They use correct premises but leap to wrong conclusions, preying on fear and disenchantment rather than forming minds in truth. This is not about personalities. It’s about epistemology—how we know what is true.
As Dr. Peter reminds us, “Sometimes the truth is unjust. But it is still the truth.” Christians must resist the schadenfreude of conspiracy culture, avoid lazy thinking, and remember that truth and justice belong to God, not to internet prophets with clickbait thumbnails.
📖 “You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” — John 8:32
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