Thanks James @corbettreport

Coincidentally, I’m currently working on a piece about Conspiracy Theories, and the tome isn’t going in the direction I’d expected it to. But, following the evidence, it’ll go where it needs to go.

Here’s what the lexicon of linguistic truth, the Oxford English Dictionary, had to say on the subject of conspiracy theories:

• "It is the theory that an event or phenomenon occurs as the result of a conspiracy between interested parties”. “A belief that some covert but influential agency, typically political in motivation and oppressive in intent, is responsible for an unexplained event"*

When I read that definition; an Event or Phenomenon – result of a Conspiracy between Interested Parties – * Influential Agency* - Political in Motivation – Oppressive in Intent, the first subject that sprung to mind was: Religion.

Thanks … Geoff