Reply #104: That's like asking a Fundamentalist Christian or Muslim to read Darwin or Anton LaVey

[apocalypsehow]

before "buying into" their deeply-held faith - and make no mistake, the JFK conspiracy cult is a faith just every bit as full of gods and sacrifices and devils and angels and wise men and betrayers and prophets and apostles as anything to come out of human religion in the last 5,000 years.

See, they have no motive to read anything that even in the slightest counter-factuals their accepted brand of religion, and will hiss like scalded cats at the very suggestion.

Consider:

(1). The JFK conspiracy cult has a martyred messiah, the man himself.

(2). His Calvary/Golgotha was a place called Dealey Plaza - and I wouldn't be one bit surprised to see a Church of the New Frontier Sepulcher erected by the cultists over the entire area in Dallas one day.

(3). It has a Satan and his legion of Fallen Angels - LBJ and the entire United States government (save for JFK and his brother Bobby, of course), plus the Mafia, the Cuban exiles, most Southerners, just about every Republican, a good many Democrats (all closet Dixiecrats, naturally), and, finally, anyone who has ever questioned in the slightest these notions by asking for verifiable facts. That last is in noticeable short supply in the JFK conspiracy cult.

(4). It has wise men, in the form of any crank who has ever written a semi-readable tract asserting that it was all a conspiracy - vast or otherwise - of some kind.

(5). It has a (sort-of) draftee-prophet - Dwight Eisenhower, playing John the Baptist to JFK's Christ (see Ike's farewell address, a favorite of the cultists).

(6). It has an arch-angel dictating a piece of Holy Celluloid Writ-drivel revered among the cultists for generations, in the form of Oliver Stone and the movie "JFK."

(7). It has - - - I could go on, but you get the general idea. Lonely people with empty souls, crowded minds, feverish, shallow intellects and much, much time on their hands gravitate to these kind of irrational passions - and it soon becomes dangerous to doubt in their presence.

Heretics, after all, are impediments to right thinking, and proper worship....

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