Prove All Things: A Biblical, Historical, Psychological & Logical Examination of a 4chan /x/ Thread on God, Occultism & Conspiracy
UPDATED BY VCG ON 8/27/2026 @ 02:22 EST
Abstract
On August 22, 2026, an anonymous user on 4chan’s paranormal board, /x/, opened a thread with a simple challenge: “convince me that God is not real.” What followed was not a single debate about the existence of God. It became a compressed tour through atheism, spiritual experience, philosophy, religious upbringing, genetics, biblical monotheism, sexuality, Freemasonry, Satanism, Saturn, feathered-serpent religions, reptilian rulers, the origin of the name America, Revelation, and finally the claim that human beings themselves are God.
That breadth is exactly why the thread is worth studying. It demonstrates how internet discussions can move rapidly from reasonable questions to unsupported conclusions when definitions change, evidence standards loosen, historical similarities are treated as proof of identity, and psychological intuitions substitute for documented causal chains.
This paper examines the thread post by post while maintaining five distinctions throughout: historical fact is not theological interpretation; psychological explanation is not refutation; philosophical possibility is not empirical proof; symbolic resemblance is not historical identity; and Scripture itself must be distinguished from what people claim Scripture teaches.
The governing methodological principle is the title itself:
“Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.” — 1 Thessalonians 5:21, KJV
The surrounding passage also commands patience, refusal to return evil for evil, and discernment regarding prophecy. The verse therefore calls for examination rather than gullibility, but also for examination rather than reflexive ridicule.
A thread like this can easily be dismissed as anonymous internet chatter. That would miss something important.
The conversation contains versions of arguments that appear far beyond 4chan:
religion exists because parents indoctrinate children;
spiritual experience proves spirits exist;
if spiritual beings can be ranked, the greatest must be God;
references to “other gods” in the Bible supposedly prove biblical polytheism;
anatomy is used to challenge biblical sexual ethics;
hidden elites are blamed for suppressing spiritual truth;
Freemasonry, Satanism, Saturn and ancient mystery religions are collapsed into a single conspiracy;
similarities between serpent traditions are presented as evidence of one hidden global religion;
alternative etymology is used to overturn conventional history;
Revelation’s language of imminence is challenged;
and finally the Creator-creature distinction disappears altogether in the assertion,
“I am God.”
The result is useful precisely because strong and weak arguments sit beside one another.
Some posters ask legitimate questions.
Some correctly observe real historical or psychological phenomena.
Some make conclusions that do not follow from their premises.
Some cite genuinely ancient religious symbols but connect them using evidence that cannot bear the weight placed upon it.
And some make theological assertions that sound biblical while contradicting the biblical text itself.
The task, then, is not to ridicule /x/. It is to separate what can be established from what is merely possible, what is merely asserted, and what is contradicted by stronger evidence.
2. Methodology: What Counts as Evidence?
This paper follows a Scripture-first but evidence-conscious approach consistent with the VCG research methodology: distinguish fact, interpretation, speculation and rhetoric; examine historical, biblical, scientific, psychological, logical and methodological dimensions separately; place context before commentary; and state uncertainty when the evidence does not justify certainty.
That means different questions require different kinds of evidence.
A claim about the location of the prostate should be checked against anatomy.
A claim about the origin of the word America should be checked against early maps and documentary sources.
A claim about religious upbringing can be compared with sociological surveys.
A claim about genetic influence on religiosity requires behavioral-genetics research.
A claim about what Freemasonry officially requires should first be compared with Masonic governing documents.
A claim about what Scripture teaches should be examined from Scripture itself before theological systems are imported into the discussion.
And a claim about somebody's internal psychological state cannot simply be inferred from a strange anonymous post.
This last point deserves emphasis.
Psychology can help identify mechanisms such as pattern perception, motivated reasoning, threat response and the desire for explanatory certainty. It cannot allow us to diagnose an anonymous poster whom we have never met.
Likewise, discovering a psychological mechanism that helps explain why somebody believes something does not establish that the belief is false.
That mistake has a name: the genetic fallacy.
Knowing where a belief came from and knowing whether a belief is true are different questions.
3. The Foundational Problem: What Does “God” Mean?
Before going line by line, one recurring problem needs to be identified.
Throughout the thread, the word God changes meaning.
At different points it refers to:
the biblical Creator;
the most powerful spirit;
an ultimate condition of intelligibility;
an unspecified author of existence;
a deity among competing gods;
the Creator described in Revelation;
and eventually the consciousness supposedly hallucinating reality itself.
These definitions cannot simply be substituted for one another.
If I define “God” as
“the most powerful spirit,”
proving such a spirit exists would still not prove that this being created heaven and earth.
If I define “God” as
“the ultimate condition required for understanding,”
establishing such a condition would not automatically establish that it speaks, loves, judges, creates or raised Jesus from the dead.
If I define myself as God, I have changed the word again.
The biblical text begins somewhere much more definite:
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” — Genesis 1:1
The first verse already distinguishes God from what God creates.
That distinction becomes decisive later.
PART I
GOD, SPIRITS, BELIEF AND EVIDENCE
4. Post No. 42859920 — “Convince Me That God Is Not Real”
The opening request is brief enough to appear straightforward, but philosophically it leaves nearly everything unspecified.
Which conception of God?
What would count as evidence?
Is the poster asking for logical contradiction, empirical evidence, biblical criticism, philosophical argument or psychological explanation?
There is another issue. The request is framed entirely negatively: convince me God is not real.
That can invite an unproductive burden-of-proof game. One side says, “Prove God.” The other says, “Disprove God.”
A more serious inquiry asks two questions:
What reasons support the proposition?
and
What reasons count against it?
The Christian Scriptures themselves contain an examination principle. The Bereans are commended because they “searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.”
That is different from believing whatever sounds spiritual.
It is also different from rejecting something solely because it is religious.
5. Post No. 42859925 — Why Would You Want Someone to Convince You?
The first reply asks why the original poster wants the belief challenged and what would happen if somebody arrived with evidence that changed everything.
This is not evidence for God.
It is, however, a good epistemological question.
Human beings do not evaluate every belief as detached calculating machines. Beliefs can become tied to identity, family, morality, community, fear, hope and social belonging.
That makes self-examination valuable.
But psychology must be applied symmetrically.
A Christian can become emotionally invested in Christianity.
An atheist can become emotionally invested in atheism.
An occultist can become emotionally invested in occultism.
A conspiracy believer can become emotionally invested in being one of the people who “see through” the official story.
Psychological investment tells us why intellectual humility is necessary. It does not tell us which worldview is true.
6. Post No. 42859929 — Spirits Exist, Therefore the Strongest Spirit Is God
Here the thread becomes substantially more interesting.
A poster says he had been an atheist for over a decade, experienced something unusual, concluded that spirits exist and reasoned that spirits could be ranked from weak to strong. The strongest spirit, he proposes, could then be called God.
There are several separate steps here:
Claim A: Spirits exist.
Claim B: Spirits differ in power.
Claim C: Every spirit can be placed in a single ordered hierarchy.
Claim D: That hierarchy has a maximum member.
Claim E: The maximum member is properly called God.
The poster provides no evidence in this post for Claim A beyond reporting that he “realized” it.
Even if Claim A were granted, Claims C through E would still require argument.
A set need not have a greatest member.
Consider positive integers. They are ordered, but there is no greatest positive integer.
Likewise, even if a hierarchy of spiritual beings existed, it would not follow merely from their existence that one possesses unlimited power.
More fundamentally, the strongest creature would still be a creature.
This is where biblical theology differs sharply from the poster’s definition.
Colossians describes Christ in relation not only to visible things but to invisible orders:
“For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible…”
The passage explicitly includes thrones, dominions, principalities and powers within what is created.
Biblically, therefore, God is not simply the highest-ranking inhabitant of an already existing spiritual ecosystem.
The Creator is categorically distinct from the spiritual creation.
7. Post No. 42859952 — “How Did You Realize?”
This may be the most important methodological question in the first half of the thread.
How was the conclusion reached?
Did the poster see something while fully awake?
Was anyone else present?
Was the phenomenon repeatable?
Was there a dream?
Sleep paralysis?
A psychedelic substance?
A ritual?
A coincidence interpreted afterward?
A physical event?
An answered prediction?
Several competing explanations can fit the vague statement
“something strange happened.”
Until we know what happened, we cannot responsibly decide among them.
Importantly, Scripture itself does not teach that every apparent supernatural occurrence should be accepted at face value.
The Bible repeatedly warns that spiritual claims require discernment.
Galatians even imagines an extraordinary messenger:
“But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you… let him be accursed.”
In other words, impressive supernatural presentation would not itself settle the theological question.
The biblical worldview is therefore not:
supernatural = trustworthy.
It is closer to:
test the claim, test the message, test the fruit, compare it with revelation.
PART II
RELIGIOUS UPBRINGING, IDENTITY AND “GOD IN THE DNA”
8. Post No. 42859981 — Religion Is Planted in Childhood
This long reply is one of the most interesting posts because part of its argument is empirically well supported.
The poster observes that parents frequently transmit religion to their children, that people raised without religion may develop differently, and that early religious identity can become psychologically difficult to abandon.
Modern survey research supports the basic social-transmission point.
Pew Research Center finds strong relationships between religious upbringing and adult religious identity. In its 2025 Religious Landscape work, people raised in highly religious homes were substantially more likely to remain religious as adults, although upbringing was far from determinative.
Pew also finds that most parents report substantial influence over their children's religious upbringing, and most parents of minors report sharing their children's religious identity.
So, the poster has identified something real:
religious beliefs are culturally transmitted.
But then the reasoning begins to exceed the evidence.
Social Transmission Does Not Establish Falsehood
Suppose somebody believes Christianity partly because Christian parents taught it to him.
That explains part of the belief's biography.
It does not tell us whether Christianity is true.
The same structure applies elsewhere.
A child learns:
language from parents;
arithmetic from teachers;
geography from school;
hygiene from caregivers;
political assumptions from culture;
scientific concepts from trusted authorities.
Some transmitted beliefs are true.
Some are false.
Some are partly true.
Transmission does not decide the question.
To argue:
“You believe Christianity because your parents taught it; therefore Christianity is false”
is a genetic fallacy.
The proper next question is still:
Are the claims true?
9. Can Religious Belief Ever Change?
The poster suggests that childhood religious identity may become so deeply planted that a person cannot be convinced otherwise.
That is overstated.
Religious switching is well documented.
People raised Christian become unaffiliated.
People raised without religion convert.
People move between Christian traditions.
People move between religions.
People return to faith after decades of unbelief.
Pew's research explicitly notes that many adults adopt an identity different from the religious identity in which they were raised.
So early socialization clearly matters.
It is not psychological destiny.
10. “God Is in Our DNA”
The same poster then speculates that after generations of religious belief, perhaps the idea of God has somehow entered human DNA—or, retreating slightly, “the collective.”
Behavioral genetics does provide an interesting nuance here.
Twin research has found both genetic and environmental contributions to measured religiosity. One study of adult male twins reported greater genetic influence on current religiousness than on retrospective adolescent religiousness, while shared family environment played a stronger role earlier in life.
Other twin research has likewise found that different dimensions of religiosity can show genetic and unique environmental influences.
But this is a very different claim from saying:
“belief in God is encoded in DNA.”
Genes may influence personality traits, sensitivities, cognitive tendencies or behavioral predispositions that correlate with religiousness.
That does not mean DNA contains a proposition reading:
God exists.
Nor does it imply that religious belief automatically becomes genetically encoded because ancestors believed it repeatedly.
Cultural inheritance and genetic inheritance are not interchangeable mechanisms.
11. The “Kill All Believers” Thought Experiment
The poster speculates that perhaps belief in God could disappear only if all believers were eradicated—then wonders whether the idea might return anyway.
As an epistemological argument this fails entirely.
Killing everyone who believes proposition P does nothing to determine whether P is true.
If every astronomer were killed, the planets would remain.
If every person who believed Australia existed disappeared, Australia would not vanish.
Destroying the carriers of a proposition is not refuting the proposition.
The hypothetical also reveals how easily an abstract discussion about ideas can slide into dehumanizing language.
A careful methodology should immediately restore the distinction:
people are not arguments.
PART III
DIVINE HIDDENNESS AND PHILOSOPHICAL DEFINITIONS
12. Post No. 42859996 — “When Was the Last Time You Saw God Do Anything?”
This is not a trivial objection.
It gestures toward the philosophical problem often called divine hiddenness.
If God exists and interacts with humanity, why is His activity not always unmistakably visible?
Why do sincere people disagree about Him?
Why does God not simply appear publicly on demand?
Those questions deserve more than
“you just need faith.”
At the same time, the argument cannot simply be:
I personally have not observed an unmistakable divine act; therefore God does not exist.
That conclusion would require an additional premise:
If God existed, I should expect to observe Him acting in the specific way I demand.
Biblical Christianity does not teach that God must perform publicly verifiable miracles whenever challenged.
It instead claims that creation witnesses to the Creator:
“For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made…”
That is Paul's theological claim in Romans 1.
Whether Paul's inference succeeds philosophically is a legitimate subject for debate.
But the biblical argument is clearly not:
“God should constantly appear as a visible object inside creation.”
13. Post No. 42860006 — Calling the Condition of Understanding “God”
Another poster offers a much more abstract argument.
The proposal is roughly that every act of definition or understanding depends upon some ultimate condition that cannot itself be defined without circularity; the poster chooses, stipulatively, to call that condition “God.”
This argument is sophisticated in wording but modest in conclusion.
The poster explicitly says the label is arbitrary and that no other divine properties are being asserted.
That honesty matters.
If the person is merely saying:
“There must be some ultimate condition of intelligibility, and I will call it God,”
then he has not yet established biblical theism.
He has not established that this condition:
is personal;
knows anything;
chooses anything;
created the universe;
possesses moral attributes;
hears prayer;
revealed Scripture;
or became incarnate in Christ.
The word God does not carry those properties into the argument by itself.
This is a recurring lesson:
definitions organize arguments; they do not substitute for them.
14. Post No. 42860011 — Existence Requires an Author
A poster next says he cannot make sense of existence without an author.
This resembles a cosmological intuition.
Why is there something rather than nothing?
Why does contingent reality exist?
Does the chain of dependent things require an ultimate explanation?
These are serious philosophical questions.
But serious cosmological arguments are more careful than “everything needs a creator.”
The contemporary philosophical literature usually distinguishes contingent beings from whatever would be metaphysically necessary. A typical contingency argument reasons from dependent or contingent reality toward a non-contingent ground or necessary being.
That is importantly different from saying:
Everything has a cause.
If literally everything required a cause, God would require one too.
Classical theistic reasoning instead proposes that contingent things require explanation while God, if He exists as necessary rather than contingent, belongs to a different explanatory category.
Whether that argument succeeds remains debated.
The 4chan post does not develop it far enough to tell.
So the fair verdict is:
philosophically serious intuition, incomplete argument.
PART IV
OTHER GODS, DIVINE JEALOUSY AND THE BIBLICAL CREATOR
15. Post No. 42860259 — Why Is God Jealous of Other Gods?
The poster notices biblical commands against other gods and asks an understandable question:
If there is only one true God, why would He care about rivals?
Why call Himself jealous?
Does that imply the rivals are genuine gods capable of threatening Him?
The question exposes an important distinction in biblical language.
Scripture can use the word god for beings or objects that receive worship without granting that they are equal, uncreated deities.
Israel is repeatedly told not to worship other gods.
At the same time Isaiah records:
“I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me.” — Isaiah 45:5
Paul later recognizes that there are things “called gods” while maintaining that an idol has no independent divine status and that there is one God.
Elsewhere he states that pagan sacrifices can involve devils:
“the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God…”
That is 1 Corinthians 10:20.
Biblically, therefore, several categories can coexist:
the one Creator; created spiritual beings; idols; false objects of worship; and beings humans call gods.
That is not equivalent to a pantheon of equal creator-deities.
What About “Jealous”?
In Exodus, jealousy is connected with covenant worship.
The image is relational.
A husband's jealousy over marital infidelity does not imply that the adulterous rival is ontologically equal to the husband. It means something exclusive has been violated.
Likewise biblical jealousy concerns Israel giving worship and covenant loyalty elsewhere.
Whether one approves of the theological claim is a separate matter.
But textually, “jealous God” does not mean:
“God fears another deity may overthrow Him.”
PART V
THE “PERFECT SPIRIT” ARGUMENT
16. Post No. 42860304 — The Perfect Lover and the Perfect Spirit
The earlier atheist returns with an analogy.
Imagine ranking all possible lovers from least loving to most loving. There would be a best one. He then transfers the structure to spirits: rank spirits, identify the best or strongest, call that being God, and conclude that God exists necessarily.
The argument contains several problems.
Problem One: A Ranking Need Not Contain Perfection
Suppose ten runners race.
One will probably be fastest.
That does not make the winner infinitely fast.
Likewise the best lover among a finite group need not be a perfect lover in any absolute sense.
“Best available member” and “perfect being” are different concepts.
Problem Two: A Ranking Need Not Have a Maximum
As noted earlier, an ordered sequence may continue without a greatest member.
So even if spirits existed and could be ranked, the premise does not establish a maximally powerful spirit.
Problem Three: Definition Does Not Generate Existence
The argument then says that once “perfect spirit” is defined as God, God exists necessarily.
But placing existence inside a definition does not necessarily produce an entity outside the definition.
This is one of the classic difficulties surrounding ontological arguments. The Stanford Encyclopedia's discussion notes that a simple move from “God has every perfection” plus “existence is a perfection” to actual existence does not succeed merely by definition.
More sophisticated ontological arguments exist.
The 4chan argument is not one of them.
Problem Four: It Still Is Not the Biblical God
Even if the argument established a maximally strong spirit, additional work would be required to identify that spirit with the LORD of Scripture.
Biblically, invisible powers are creatures.
So defining the strongest spirit as God actually begins with a conception foreign to the biblical Creator-creature distinction.
PART VI
“YOU CAN’T PROVE A NEGATIVE”
17. Post No. 42860312 — Prove He Is Real
One poster objects that the OP is asking people to prove a negative and replies: prove God is real instead.
There is a useful point hidden inside an internet cliché.
The statement “you cannot prove a negative” is false as a general rule.
We can prove:
there is no largest negative integer;
no square circle exists;
no even prime greater than two exists.
Empirical negatives can also sometimes be established when the search space and expected evidence are sufficiently defined.
What becomes difficult is disproving an entity defined so vaguely that no conceivable observation counts against it.
That is why definitions matter.
If “God” means merely “something somewhere beyond all possible observation,” falsification becomes extremely difficult.
If “God” means the specific biblical Creator who has acted in specific historical ways, then some claims become historically and philosophically examinable.
Burden of proof is therefore not a trick that permanently belongs to only one side.
The person asserting God exists should offer reasons.
The person asserting God cannot exist should offer reasons.
And both should define what they mean.
PART VII
RHETORIC WITHOUT ARGUMENT
18. Post No. 42861012 — “Christian Larper” and Damnation as a Taunt
One reply abandons argument almost entirely and mocks the OP, hoping that the person will ruin his life pretending to be Christian and then be thrown into the fire.
Nothing in this advances the truth question.
It is intimidation and ridicule.
It also illustrates an important distinction between biblical warning and weaponized theology.
The New Testament can speak with extraordinary seriousness about judgment.
It simultaneously instructs:
“And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men…”
The Christian method of correction is therefore not licensed to become sadistic enjoyment of another person's condemnation.
Biblical conviction and cruelty are not synonyms.
PART VIII
LEVITICUS, THE PROSTATE AND A FAILED MORAL INFERENCE
19. Post No. 42861035 — “Why Put the Male G-Spot Inside the Colon?”
This objection combines anatomy with ethics.
It refers to Leviticus 20:13 and argues that if God opposes male homosexual activity, why would male anatomy permit sexual pleasure from rectal stimulation?
The first problem is anatomical.
The prostate is not inside the colon.
The National Cancer Institute describes the prostate as lying below the bladder and in front of the rectum. It surrounds part of the urethra.
It can be accessed indirectly through the rectal wall, which is why rectal examination can be used medically.
So there is a real anatomical basis behind the colloquial phrase “male G-spot,” but the thread states its location incorrectly.
Anatomy Does Not Establish Moral Permission
Even if the anatomy had been described perfectly, the moral argument would still require another premise.
The reasoning appears to be:
If a body part can produce pleasure when stimulated in a particular way, that use must be morally approved by the body's Creator.
That does not logically follow.
Human anatomy makes many pleasurable or rewarding experiences possible.
Morality cannot be derived solely from the presence of a pleasure response.
That would be an is-to-ought leap.
What Does Scripture Actually Say?
Leviticus 20:13 belongs to the holiness and judicial legislation given to Israel.
A careful Christian interpretation must distinguish the text's prohibition from the question of how Mosaic civil penalties relate to Christians living outside ancient Israel's covenant polity.
The New Testament does not simply leave the sexual question in Leviticus. Romans 1 discusses same-sex sexual activity negatively within its larger argument about idolatry and disordered worship.
But the chapter division matters.
Romans immediately continues:
“Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest…”
Paul turns from describing Gentile sin to confronting the self-righteous judge.
Thus a biblical sexual ethic cannot honestly be separated from a biblical condemnation of hypocrisy, pride and merciless judgment.
PART IX
BELIEVING IN THE CREATOR AND HATING HIM
20. Post No. 42861038 — “Creator Is Real. I Hate It.”
This short post is philosophically clearer than many longer ones.
It distinguishes belief from affection.
The poster apparently affirms a Creator while expressing hostility toward Him.
That is perfectly coherent as a logical position.
One can believe a ruler exists and hate the ruler.
One can believe a judgment exists and resent it.
One can believe something is true without finding it emotionally desirable.
Biblically, mere intellectual recognition of God is not equivalent to faithful relationship with God.
James 2:19 makes the point sharply: demons are portrayed as believing that God is one and trembling.
Thus, within Christianity itself:
theism is not identical to saving faith.
The emotional statement still does not prove the Creator exists.
But neither does hatred of the Creator prove He does not.
21. Post No. 42861780 — “Realest Post”
Another user calls the previous statement the most real post on the board.
That is social validation.
It adds no new evidence.
Agreement can feel evidential because human beings use social consensus as a heuristic.
Sometimes that is reasonable—expert consensus can carry substantial epistemic weight.
But one anonymous person affirming another anonymous person's emotional statement is not independent verification.
PART X
THE THREAD BECOMES A CONSPIRACY NARRATIVE
22. Post No. 42861817 — “The Elites Sold Us Out”
The thread then changes character.
A poster says he fears “the elites” sold humanity out.
As written, this claim cannot be properly fact-checked.
Who are “the elites”?
What was sold?
To whom?
When?
Under what agreement?
What documents record the transaction?
What observable predictions follow?
What evidence could show the claim to be false?
These questions are not pedantry.
They distinguish an investigable conspiracy allegation from an unfalsifiable narrative.
Actual conspiracies occur.
History contains secret agreements, covert operations, organized corruption and institutional cover-ups.
Therefore, “conspiracy” cannot simply mean “false.”
But a genuine investigation needs identifiable actors, mechanisms, chronology, evidence and standards of disconfirmation.
Without those, nearly any disturbing event can be absorbed afterward into the theory.
Psychology Without Diagnosis
Research on conspiracy beliefs finds that such explanations can appeal to epistemic motives for understanding, existential motives involving safety and control, and social motives involving identity and group standing.
That does not tell us that this particular anonymous user has a psychological disorder.
Nor does it tell us a conspiracy claim must be false.
It tells us why especially threatening, ambiguous situations demand extra methodological discipline.
PART XI
GOD, TESTING AND FREEMASONRY
23. Post No. 42861818 — God Is Testing Us and Freemasons Are Satanists
The next poster combines several different propositions:
- God created the universe.
- Human beings disappoint Him.
- His apparent silence is a test.
- Freemasons try to erase God's presence.
- They do this because they are Satanists.
The first three are theological claims.
The last two are institutional historical claims.
They require different evidence.
Does Scripture Contain the Idea of Testing?
Yes.
Scripture repeatedly speaks of God proving or testing people.
Even Exodus 20 says:
“God is come to prove you…”
So the broad theological concept exists.
But the thread's expression that God “leaves us on read” is an interpretive metaphor.
Scripture does not say every instance of unanswered prayer or divine hiddenness should be explained by one universal formula: God is testing you.
Sometimes biblical authors describe testing.
Sometimes discipline.
Sometimes waiting.
Sometimes consequences.
Sometimes mystery.
The interpretation therefore needs more context than the post provides.
Are Freemasons Institutionally Satanists?
Here primary institutional evidence matters.
The United Grand Lodge of England states that the first condition for admission and membership is belief in a Supreme Being. Its public FAQ likewise says candidates are expected to affirm such belief.
This does not prove every Mason in history has been spiritually faithful.
It does not prove every Masonic doctrine is compatible with Christianity.
It does not prevent Christians from criticizing Masonic religious pluralism, ritual, oaths, secrecy or its generic language concerning the Supreme Being.
Those are legitimate theological discussions.
But those are different claims from:
Freemasonry is institutionally designed to erase belief in God because Freemasons are Satanists.
The thread supplies no evidence sufficient to establish that sweeping proposition.
The documentary evidence from regular Freemasonry actually complicates it considerably because belief in a Supreme Being is formally required.
A sound Christian critique should therefore criticize what can be documented rather than strengthening its case with claims it cannot prove.
PART XII
FALSE GODS, SPIRITUAL DECEPTION AND IDOLATRY
24. Post No. 42861869 — Humanity Was Tricked Into Worshipping Evil Beings
Another poster proposes that the greatest psychological operation in human history may be humanity's worship of gods and goddesses that were actually evil entities in disguise. He then connects this with modern idolization of celebrities and political figures.
This post needs to be divided carefully because one portion is surprisingly close to biblical categories while another outruns the text.
Biblical Support for Spiritual Deception
Scripture certainly allows for religious deception.
Paul warns that even an angelic appearance cannot override the received gospel.
First Corinthians 10 associates Gentile sacrifices with devils.
Revelation depicts satanic deception on a global scale, calling Satan “that old serpent” who “deceiveth the whole world.”
Therefore the broad proposition:
“Something presented as spiritual or divine could be deceptive”
is thoroughly compatible with Scripture.
But another proposition does not automatically follow:
“Every named pagan deity in every civilization was literally the same disguised spiritual entity participating in one coordinated historical system.”
That would require evidence.
The Bible's warning about spiritual deception is not permission to ignore chronology, archaeology, linguistics or cultural differences.
Celebrity and Political Idolatry
Here the poster's observation can be understood metaphorically.
Biblically, idolatry is not limited to stone statues.
Anything receiving ultimate loyalty that belongs to God can become an idol in a theological sense.
Power, wealth, nation, ideology, celebrity or political leadership can therefore become idolatrous.
But saying somebody treats a politician like an idol is different from proving that the politician is literally part of an occult supernatural operation.
Again:
theological analogy is not historical proof.
PART XIII
SATAN, SATURN AND ASSOCIATIVE ETYMOLOGY
25. Post No. 42861872 — Satanism Is Really Saturnian Worship
The next reply asserts that Satanism is merely a cover for dark Saturn worship.
There are several genuine historical facts around which this claim can form.
Saturn was an ancient Roman deity.
Saturn had religious cult and festival traditions.
Occult and esoteric writers in later periods have sometimes incorporated planetary symbolism.
And some modern occult systems use Saturn symbolically.
None of this establishes that all Satanism is secretly Saturn worship.
For example, the modern Church of Satan explicitly describes its form of Satanism as non-theistic and Satan as metaphorical rather than a literal deity.
That institution does not represent everyone who has ever used the label Satanist. Theistic Satanists also exist.
But that diversity makes the universal Saturn thesis harder to sustain.
“Satan” and “Saturn” Sound Similar
This is not enough.
Words that look or sound alike can arise from completely different linguistic histories.
Historical etymology requires documented development through languages and time.
Phonetic similarity is a clue worth checking.
It is not proof.
This error will reappear even more dramatically in the thread's treatment of America.
PART XIV
REPTILIANS, FEATHERED SERPENTS AND “AMARUCA”
26. Post No. 42861878 — The Thread's Largest Historical Claim
This is the most elaborate conspiracy post in the thread.
It proposes:
ancient reptilian extraterrestrials ruled Earth;
particular human families descend from them;
these families falsified history;
the Americas were originally associated with feathered serpents;
Quetzalcoatl, Kukulkan and Amaru represent versions of the same deity;
Peru was supposedly called Amaruca;
and America derives from Amaruca rather than Amerigo Vespucci.
The way to evaluate this is not to accept or reject the entire package at once.
Several components are real.
Others are not established.
One is directly contradicted by very strong documentary evidence.
27. Quetzalcoatl and Kukulkan: A Real Connection
The thread is correct that feathered-serpent traditions existed in Mesoamerica.
The Metropolitan Museum describes the feathered serpent at Chichén Itzá as known by the Nahuatl name Quetzalcoatl and the Yucatec Maya name Kukulkan, noting that the deity was important at Chichén Itzá.
The British Museum likewise identifies Kukulkan as the Maya name for a feathered-serpent deity worshipped in Mesoamerican cultures.
So this portion should not be “debunked.”
It is historically real.
There were related feathered-serpent traditions in Mesoamerica.
28. Amaru: Also Real, but Andean
The thread is also correct that amaru is associated with serpent imagery in the Andes.
The Metropolitan Museum describes Inca religious veneration of the serpent and explicitly gives the Quechua terms amaru and machacuay.
Again, that part is not fabricated.
But now we reach the methodological problem.
Mesoamerica and the Andes are geographically and culturally distinct regions.
The existence of serpent symbolism in both places does not by itself establish:
identical deities;
a common priesthood;
extraterrestrial ancestry;
a single global cult;
or a hidden ruling bloodline.
Similarity gives us a research question.
It does not give us the answer.
29. “Serpent Worship Was Universal”
The post expands the observation into a universal claim.
Serpent symbolism certainly appears in many cultures.
But symbols can carry radically different meanings.
A serpent can represent:
danger;
fertility;
water;
medicine;
rebirth;
kingship;
chaos;
wisdom;
death;
protection;
an enemy;
or a divine being.
Historical interpretation requires context.
Otherwise we could find the same geometric shape on objects separated by millennia and declare the civilizations identical.
That would be iconographic pattern matching, not history.
30. The Bible and Serpent Symbolism
This is especially important for a Christian investigation.
Revelation 12:9 explicitly identifies:
“that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan…”
So biblical serpent symbolism can indeed be satanic.
But Scripture itself proves why one cannot use the simplistic rule:
serpent = Satan in every context.
In Numbers, Moses makes a brasen serpent at God's command as part of the wilderness healing episode.
Centuries later, when Israelites burn incense to that same object, Hezekiah destroys it.
The object therefore moves from a divinely authorized sign to an abused object of idolatry.
Scripture interprets symbols according to context.
So should we.
PART XV
WAS AMERICA REALLY “AMARUCA”?
31. The Claim
The 4chan poster attributes an alternative etymology to material connected with William T. Still and an alleged article in the Theosophical magazine Lucifer, claiming Amaruca meant something like “Land of the Plumed Serpents” and gave rise to the name America.
This is an excellent test case for historical methodology because we possess unusually strong primary-era evidence.
32. The 1507 Waldseemüller Evidence
In 1507 Martin Waldseemüller published the famous world map on which the name America first appears.
More importantly, Waldseemüller and his circle did not leave historians guessing about why they used the name.
The accompanying Cosmographiae Introductio explains the naming in connection with Amerigo Vespucci.
The Library of Congress summarizes the relevant passage: Waldseemüller and Ringmann proposed calling the newly recognized fourth part of the world America, essentially “the land of Amerigo,” after Vespucci.
The Library of Congress preserves both the 1507 map and the Cosmographiae Introductio.
This is not a nineteenth- or twentieth-century textbook theory projected backward.
It is documentary evidence associated with the people who introduced the name on the surviving cartographic record.
That makes it extraordinarily strong evidence.
33. Why the Amaruca Theory Fails Methodologically
For the Amaruca theory to replace the Vespucci explanation, it would need evidence at least comparable to the 1507 documentary record.
We would want:
a pre-1507 Indigenous use of Amaruca as a continental name;
linguistic documentation demonstrating the proposed meaning;
historical evidence that Waldseemüller or Ringmann encountered that term;
evidence that they derived America from it;
and an explanation for why their own published text instead attributes the name to Amerigo.
The 4chan post supplies none of those things.
Instead it moves through a sequence of associations:
Amaru → serpent → Amaruca → America → Vespucci image → reptilian symbolism.
Each arrow requires independent evidence.
The chain is only as strong as those arrows.
The primary documentary record strongly supports the conventional Vespucci explanation.
This does not mean conventional history is infallible.
It means alternative history has to defeat the evidence actually on the table.
Here it does not.
PART XVI
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF “CONNECTING THE DOTS”
34. Pattern Recognition Is Necessary—and Dangerous
The reptilian/Amaruca post illustrates a wider cognitive issue.
Human beings are pattern-finding organisms.
That ability is indispensable.
Without pattern recognition we could not learn language, recognize faces, identify causes, discover scientific regularities or navigate social life.
The problem occurs when perceived pattern outruns demonstrated causal connection.
Experimental research has found an association between conspiracy and supernatural beliefs and greater tendencies toward illusory pattern perception under some conditions. Van Prooijen, Douglas and De Inocencio found relationships between such beliefs and perceiving patterns in random or chaotic information.
More recent work has complicated the picture, finding that the effects differ between paranormal and conspiracy beliefs and may be smaller than other sources of variation.
That nuance matters.
We should not turn a psychological correlation into:
“Anyone who believes a conspiracy is mentally defective.”
That would be both scientifically irresponsible and rhetorically lazy.
Actual conspiracies exist.
Actual patterns exist.
The task is to distinguish genuine connection from coincidence.
The correct response to pattern perception is therefore neither:
“Every connection is meaningful”
nor:
“All connections are coincidence.”
It is:
show the causal chain.
PART XVII
“WHICH GOD?”
35. Post No. 42861879 — Two Words That Reopen the Whole Debate
Near the end of the thread, someone asks:
“Which god”.
After everything that has happened, the question is almost a reset button.
It is also the correct question.
The thread has used God for multiple incompatible ideas.
Biblically, God is not introduced simply as “a spiritual entity.”
At the burning bush, God identifies Himself in connection with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and gives Moses the divine name associated with the LORD.
Acts 17 presents Paul speaking to pagans about:
“God that made the world and all things therein…”
Paul's argument distinguishes this Creator from manufactured religious objects.
Genesis begins with creation.
Isaiah insists there is no God beside the LORD.
Colossians places visible and invisible powers among created things.
Biblically, the question is therefore not:
Which supernatural being happens to be strongest?
It is:
Who is the Creator, and has He revealed Himself?
PART XVIII
THE ANGEL OF REVELATION 14
36. Post No. 42861897 — “Fear God and Give Him Glory”
A poster then paraphrases Revelation 14:7, saying an angel announces that people should fear God, give Him glory and worship the One who created heaven, earth, sea and waters.
The underlying identification is correct.
But the exact KJV text is:
“Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.” — Revelation 14:7
The thread's wording therefore should not be presented as an exact King James quotation.
More importantly, the verse answers the earlier “Which god?” question within Revelation itself.
The object of worship is identified by creation:
the One who made heaven and earth.
The distinction between Creator and creature returns again.
PART XIX
“2,000 YEARS ISN’T SOON”
37. Post No. 42862117 — A Real Eschatological Problem
One poster remarks:
“2k years isn't soon.”
This is one of the strongest skeptical observations in the thread because the temporal language is genuinely present in Revelation.
Revelation opens:
“things which must shortly come to pass”
and:
“the time is at hand.”
Near the end Jesus says:
“Surely I come quickly.”
A Christian answer should not pretend these phrases do not exist.
38. What Does “Soon” Mean?
Several Christian interpretive approaches have developed.
Preterist Approaches
Preterist readings emphasize the first-century audience and argue that much of Revelation's judgment language refers to events relatively near John's readers.
This approach takes “shortly” and “at hand” quite directly.
Futurist Approaches
Futurist readings generally place much of Revelation's major judgment material near the end of history.
Some understand “quickly” as emphasizing suddenness or rapid execution once the predicted events begin.
Others emphasize imminence: the event can come without the predicted interval being revealed to the Church.
Historicist Approaches
Historicist interpretations read Revelation as unfolding across long periods of church and political history.
Idealist Approaches
Idealist interpretations emphasize recurring patterns of conflict between the kingdom of God and worldly powers rather than treating every vision as one narrowly dated historical prediction.
These approaches disagree substantially.
The disagreement should be admitted.
39. Does 2 Peter 3 Solve Everything?
Second Peter addresses people questioning the apparent delay of divine judgment.
It says:
“one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”
It then says that the Lord is not slack concerning His promise but longsuffering.
This passage is relevant.
But it should not be misused as a conversion formula:
1 prophetic day = exactly 1,000 calendar years.
Peter's comparison runs in both directions.
His argument concerns God's relation to time and divine longsuffering, not a mathematical timetable.
So the skeptic's objection should be answered, not dismissed.
“Two thousand years isn't soon”
identifies a real hermeneutical tension.
Christians disagree about the best resolution.
Honesty requires saying so.
PART XX
“I AM GOD”
40. Post No. 42862325 — God’s “Hallucination” and Self-Deification
The final post says reality exists inside God's “schizophrenic hallucination” and declares that the poster is, always was and always will be God.
Two issues should be separated immediately.
First, schizophrenic is being used rhetorically.
Nothing in this thread permits a clinical diagnosis of schizophrenia.
Using a psychiatric term as shorthand for bizarre metaphysics is inaccurate and unnecessarily stigmatizing.
Second, the metaphysical assertion resembles forms of pantheistic, monistic or radical idealist thought—but without enough philosophical detail to classify it precisely.
The claim appears to move something like this:
reality exists within divine consciousness;
humans participate in that reality;
therefore human consciousness is divine consciousness;
therefore I am God.
Those steps do not automatically follow.
Participation is not identity.
Dependence is not identity.
Being created by something is not being identical to the creator.
41. Biblical Correction: Creator and Creature Are Not the Same Being
Genesis 1:1 already makes the distinction:
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
Romans condemns the reversal in which the creature receives what belongs to the Creator:
“worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator…”
Paul's language in Romans 8 continues distinguishing creatures—even spiritual powers—from the love of God rather than identifying them with God.
Christian theology can speak extraordinarily strongly about communion with God.
The believer can be:
indwelt by the Spirit;
united with Christ;
adopted;
transformed;
conformed to Christ's image;
and described in 2 Peter as participating in the divine nature.
But participation in divine life does not mean becoming the uncreated Creator.
The statement “I am God” therefore cannot be reconciled with the basic Creator-creature structure of Scripture simply by appealing to Christian mystical language.
PART XXI
WHAT THE THREAD ACTUALLY GETS RIGHT
It would be unfair to conclude that the entire discussion is worthless.
Several posts raise genuinely valuable questions.
1. “How Did You Realize?”
Excellent methodological question.
Personal spiritual testimony should be investigated rather than automatically believed or mocked.
2. Religious Upbringing Matters
Correct.
Family, culture, education and social environment strongly affect religious identity.
3. Spiritual Claims Could Be Deceptive
Biblically correct in principle.
Scripture itself warns about deceptive signs, false spiritual messages and false worship.
4. Feathered-Serpent Religions Were Real
Correct.
Quetzalcoatl/Kukulkan traditions are historically documented, and Andean amaru serpent symbolism is real.
5. “Which God?”
Essential.
The entire debate becomes confused without a stable definition.
6. Revelation Really Does Use Imminence Language
Correct.
“Shortly,” “at hand,” and “quickly” are actually in the text.
A serious Bible study has to deal with them.
PART XXII
WHERE THE THREAD MOST OFTEN GOES WRONG
The recurring problem is not simple ignorance.
It is uncontrolled inference.
The pattern looks like this:
Observation
A real thing is noticed.
Association
It resembles another thing.
Identification
The two things are treated as the same.
Expansion
That identification becomes part of a much larger explanatory system.
Consider the sequence:
Spirits exist → spirits can be ranked → ranking has a maximum → maximum is perfect → perfect spirit necessarily exists → call it God.
Too many unsupported steps.
Or:
Quetzalcoatl is a serpent → Amaru is a serpent → they must represent the same entity → serpent worship was universal → ancient rulers were reptilian → their descendants rule today.
Again, too many unsupported steps.
Or:
Amaru sounds like Amaruca → Amaruca resembles America → therefore America was not named after Amerigo Vespucci.
But the documentary record explicitly explains the Vespucci connection.
Or:
Satan sounds somewhat like Saturn → Saturn had an ancient cult → therefore Satanism is a cover for Saturn worship.
Phonetic resemblance becomes a substitute for historical transmission.
Or:
parents teach religion → children often retain religion → religiosity shows some heritability → belief in God is encoded in DNA.
Social science becomes genetic mythology.
This is why methodology matters.
A narrative can feel increasingly convincing because each new association appears to confirm the previous one.
But if the links themselves have never been independently established, adding more links does not strengthen the argument.
It only makes the structure larger.
PART XXIII
A BIBLICAL WARNING FOR BOTH SKEPTICS AND CONSPIRACY BELIEVERS
The Bible does not teach naïveté.
It warns of false prophets.
False brethren.
False Christs.
Deceptive spirits.
Lying signs.
Idolatry.
Political oppression.
Corrupt rulers.
Religious hypocrisy.
Secret wrongdoing.
The Bible therefore gives Christians no warrant to announce:
“Powerful people never conspire.”
History would refute that anyway.
But Scripture also repeatedly condemns false witness, lying, unjust accusation and foolish speech.
Those commands mean a Christian cannot justify a weak allegation by saying:
“Well, evil conspiracies happen, so this one is probably true too.”
That would invert biblical discernment.
Biblical discernment requires a higher standard, not a lower one.
Paul's instruction is not:
Believe all things that sound spiritually significant.
It is:
“Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.”
And Acts praises people who checked even apostolic preaching against Scripture:
they
“searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.”
The principle is examination.
PART XXIV
THE CENTRAL THEOLOGICAL CORRECTION
After all the side roads—
- spirits
- DNA
- Saturn
- serpents
- Freemasons
- ancient civilizations
- Revelation
—the thread repeatedly returns to one underlying theological error.
God is treated as one object inside the universe.
Maybe the strongest spirit.
Maybe the smartest spirit.
Maybe the highest being.
Maybe a cosmic mind.
Maybe the hidden entity behind old religions.
Maybe the totality of consciousness.
But Scripture's Creator is not merely the most powerful item in the inventory of reality.
Genesis says He creates heaven and earth.
Isaiah says:
“I am the LORD, and there is none else.”
Acts describes Him as the One who
“made the world and all things therein.”
Colossians places visible and invisible powers among what is created through Christ.
Revelation calls mankind to worship the One who
“made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.”
This produces a biblical hierarchy completely different from the one proposed in the thread:
God is not the strongest spirit among spirits.
Angels are creatures.
Demons are creatures.
Satan is a creature.
Human beings are creatures.
Idols are not rival creators.
Nothing worshipped by man thereby becomes equal to God.
And the human self does not become the Creator merely by calling itself divine.
PART XXV
FINAL ASSESSMENT
The thread begins with a question worth asking:
Does God exist?
Unfortunately, the conversation repeatedly changes the question before finishing the previous one.
The strongest contributions are questions:
How did you determine spirits exist?
Which God are we talking about?
Why does Revelation say “shortly” and “at hand”?
How strongly does religious upbringing shape belief?
Those questions deserve study.
The weakest contributions are conclusions built through association:
the strongest spirit must necessarily be God;
religion has entered human DNA;
all Freemasons are Satanists trying to erase God;
Satanism is secretly Saturn worship;
serpent imagery establishes one global occult system;
reptilian extraterrestrials left human ruling bloodlines;
America derives from Amaruca;
and human consciousness is literally God.
The historical claim concerning America is especially instructive because we can test it against unusually strong evidence.
Waldseemüller's 1507 map and accompanying text connect the name America to Amerigo Vespucci.
The fact that amaru really is an Andean serpent term makes the alternative story more seductive, but not more historically established.
That distinction captures the entire paper.
A claim can contain true pieces and still produce a false conclusion.
Serpent traditions are real.
Therefore reptilian rulers do not automatically follow.
Religious upbringing is real.
Therefore God does not automatically become imaginary.
Genetic influence on religiosity is real.
Therefore theology is not encoded in DNA.
Freemasonry uses religious language.
Therefore any theological criticism must deal with what Freemasonry actually says and does rather than simply declaring every Mason a Satanist.
Scripture teaches spiritual deception.
Therefore Christians should be discerning.
But the existence of deception does not mean every suspicious resemblance is proof.
Conclusion: “Prove All Things”
The title of this investigation is not simply a slogan for attacking claims we dislike.
It is a standard that has to be turned on ourselves.
If an atheist says religion is nothing but childhood conditioning, prove it.
If an occultist says a personal experience proves spirits exist, examine it.
If a philosopher defines the ultimate condition of understanding as God, ask what the definition actually establishes.
If a Christian says “other gods” means equal divine competitors, compare Scripture with Scripture.
If an internet post gets human anatomy wrong, correct it from anatomy.
If someone connects Freemasons to Satanism, require documentary evidence.
If someone says Satan really means Saturn, demand linguistic history.
If someone connects Quetzalcoatl, Kukulkan and Amaru, acknowledge the real religious history before asking whether the proposed broader connection has been demonstrated.
If someone says America comes from Amaruca, go back to 1507.
If somebody quotes Revelation, check the wording.
If somebody says two thousand years cannot possibly qualify as “soon,” do not mock the objection—study the text.
And if somebody says he himself is God, return to the first sentence of Scripture:
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
Everything after that begins with a distinction.
There is the Creator.
And there is creation.
The 4chan thread becomes most confused whenever that boundary disappears.
There is therefore a valuable lesson here that reaches far beyond one paranormal message board.
Truth is not protected by refusing questions.
It is not protected by treating every unusual possibility as impossible.
But neither is truth served by allowing possibility to become probability, probability to become certainty, resemblance to become identity, or speculation to become history.
The proper response is slower.
Define the claim.
Identify the evidence.
Distinguish observation from interpretation.
Compare the strongest sources.
Ask what would falsify the conclusion.
Recognize psychological pressures without diagnosing strangers.
Read Scripture in context.
Allow uncertainty where uncertainty remains.
Correct error where the evidence is clear.
And hold onto what survives examination.
“Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.” — 1 Thessalonians 5:21
Selected Sources
Primary Thread
4chan /x/, Thread No. 42859920, “convince me that God is not real,” August 22–23, 2026.
Primary Biblical Text
The Holy Bible, Authorized King James Version, Pure Cambridge Edition, uploaded research copy.
VCG Methodology
VCG Research Manual & Master Project Handoff, emphasizing Scripture-first evidence-based analysis, context before commentary, separation of fact from interpretation and speculation, and honest treatment of uncertainty.
History of the Name “America”
Library of Congress, “Recognizing and Naming America: Waldseemüller’s 1507 Map.”
Library of Congress, “1507 World Map Highlights,” including Waldseemüller and Ringmann's explanation of America as the land of Amerigo.
Martin Waldseemüller et al., Cosmographiae Introductio (1507), Library of Congress record.
Mesoamerican and Andean Serpent Traditions
Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Face Ornaments of Quetzalcoatl,” identifying Quetzalcoatl/Kukulkan feathered-serpent traditions at Chichén Itzá.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Serpent Ornament,” discussing Inca serpent veneration and the Quechua amaru.
British Museum, “Kukulkan,” identifying Kukulkan as the Maya Feathered Serpent deity.
Anatomy
National Cancer Institute, “Understanding Prostate Changes,” locating the prostate below the bladder and in front of the rectum.
Religious Socialization and Genetics
Pew Research Center, “How Parents Are Raising Their Children, Religiously,” 2025.
Pew Research Center, “Religious Upbringing and Childhood Education,” 2025 Religious Landscape Study.
Koenig, McGue, Krueger & Bouchard, “Genetic and Environmental Influences on Religiousness,” Journal of Personality 73 (2005).
Vance, Maes & Kendler, “Genetic and Environmental Influences on Multiple Dimensions of Religiosity,” Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 198 (2010).
Psychology of Conspiracy Belief
Douglas, Sutton & Cichocka, “The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories,” Current Directions in Psychological Science 26 (2017).
van Prooijen, Douglas & De Inocencio, “Connecting the Dots: Illusory Pattern Perception Predicts Belief in Conspiracies and the Supernatural,” European Journal of Social Psychology 48 (2018).
Philosophy
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Cosmological Argument.”
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Ontological Arguments.”
Freemasonry and Satanism
United Grand Lodge of England, “Aims and Relationships of the Craft,” stating belief in a Supreme Being as a condition of membership.
United Grand Lodge of England, Freemasonry FAQ.
Church of Satan, “On the Misconceptions of Atheism and Satanism,” representing that organization's explicitly non-theistic understanding of Satan.
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