“One of the psychological attractions of conspiracy theories is the same thing that attracts people to Gnosticism: the thrill of secret knowledge, knowing something that mere ordinary people do not know. This is part of the attraction of movements like QAnon.”
(R. Scott Clark – The Heidelblog) There is a risk in writing about fast-changing news. As of this writing, we do not know why a disturbed young man tried to murder the former president of the United States. He appears to have been a loner, bullied, who lashed out by climbing upon an unguarded roof about 150 yards from Donald Trump. His shot missed Mr Trump but he murdered someone in the crowd behind Mr Trump and injured others.
The Attraction of Gnosticism
How is it possible for a civilian, not some highly-skilled foreign operative, to get a semi-automatic rifle so close to someone under the protection of the United States Secret Service? Authorities were apparently alerted to his presence with enough time to stop the attack yet they allowed Mr. Trump to take the stage and failed to find and stop the murderer until after he began shooting.
The more details that emerge the more it seems that people, Christians among them, turn to a bewildering array of conspiracy theories to explain what happened. Some theories allege that factions within the American government plotted the attack. Others theorize that the shooter was under the control of a foreign adversary. Yet another, claims that, despite what we all saw and the photographic evidence to the contrary, Mr. Trump was never shot at all. Of course, none of us outside of the investigation really knows what the whole truth is. It almost seems, however, that the more outlandish the theory, the more adherents it finds.