Secret Societies

One of the reasons that atheists don’t believe in God is that they don’t think His existence adds anything in terms of our understanding of the world around us. From Bertrand Russell’s Why I Am Not a Christian, “If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument.”

I offer this only to say that the secret societies, e.g., the Illuminati, the New World Order and the rest are clearly BS for the precise same reason.  Does anyone believe that some group of people, far wealthier than Elon Musk, have ordered him to buy Twitter and re-instate Donald Trump’s account?  That they’ve ordered Putin to invade Ukraine?

Now that there are people whose net worth is measured in hundreds of billions of dollars, the justification for even more powerful people has evaporated.  The existence of these cabals has ceased to add anything to our understanding of human civilization.