Welcome back to Seamus Popery. I'm Joe Heschmeier, and I cannot go on social media right now

without being barraged by people sharing fake news with me. And I don't mean opinions I disagree with.

I mean sharing things that are just factually untrue. It's everything from a theory that is

claiming things that just did not happen or AI-generated art,

pictures that the person can't tell aren't real.

So much of modern life is spent combating

not just differences of opinion or perspective,

but just outright the battle between truth and error.

And this is likely to become reignited in many ways.

One of those, recently, Donald Trump announced that

he was going to declassify all of the records concerning the assassinations of John F. Kennedy,

Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King. And with all of those, there are different

levels of conspiracy theories, people claiming to know what really happened.

And so I was recently asked on Patreon, which, by the way, Shamelessjo.com, if you want to join, I was asked on Patreon, what do we make of that spiritually?

Because when you have these conspiracy theories about major world events or about really whatever, because we see this

in theology, oh, the Catholic Church is covering up such and such. We see it in politics. Oh,

the government is covering up such and such. We see it even in sports. Oh, the Kansas City Chiefs

get all the calls. You thought I wasn't going to mention the chief? Come on. I'm wearing red all week.

And all of these areas from the trivial

and, you know, mundane and playful to the really serious accusations, we find people

very willing to entertain theories about reality that are, one, contrary to the mainstream

narrative, that's fine, but two, making very accusatory, damning sort of accusations

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