Secret plans

Sometimes conspiracies happen | Andrée Seu

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I think I understand why we have contempt for conspiracy theories: No one wants to be the National Enquirer. (Although, wasn't it the National Enquirer that broke the John Edwards extramarital affair story?) Liberals and conservatives may hate each other, but they cozy up like Herod and Pilate after Good Friday when it comes to disdain for the big "C" word. If anyone out there is conspiring against this country, the best thing he has going for him is our snobbery regarding conspiracy theories.

But conspiracy theory is right up our alley as Christians. We see conspiracy from the day a garden fruit was sampled at the behest of a serpent who came in secret to plot the original power-grab. There was a cover-up, and there was finger-pointing when the little cabal was exposed. Conspiracy is vintage Christianity.

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