I first heard a conspiracy theory in 1995. It had to do with the CFR and the league of Rome. I was in graduate school at the time, and one of my professors saw the world through a different lens. His ideas were intriguing to me and after reading Ellul's "Technological Bluff" in another class, I was left with the idea that the world wasn't as it seemed.

Prior to that, I had become a Christian in 1986, but was only by the mid-90s coming to learn that the world didn't appreciate my moral position and was actively working to undermine it. Of all the conspiracies, this was the worst because it is anti-God, not to mention anti-Christ.

Materialism is the worst kind of conspiracy theory because it comes straight from the devil, who has convinced so much of humanity that the material l, the here-and-now, is all that matters.