Yours is the the very best way to respond on a thread like this.
Then again, there are many otherwise, apparently sane people that truly believe if you don't turn off your air conditioner when it's hot, you are destroying the Earth, just as there are many otherwise, apparently sane people who believe -- truly believe -- that we are being visited by UFOs (little green men with ray guns soon to follow). I find all this to be a sometimes welcomed diversion from reality; entertaining at least.
In every Big Lie, I’m interested in seeing the fraction of Truth that The Big Lie is engineered to generate opposition to.
Take space aliens, for instance.
We’re to believe the Big Lie that we’re being visited by high-tech beings from outer space piloting uber-advanced spacefaring craft through our atmosphere, and occasionally landing to snatch some Skeeter From The Sticks and pick his brain.
Utter Folderol.
But what’s the Truth that this Lie is designed to cultivate disdain for?
I suggest the Space Aliens Lie is engineered to induce disdain for the existence of ANY non-terrestrial life of ANY kind, which — necessarily — would include belief in God. No matter which texts you read, He nor any of His angles or whatnot are from anyplace around here.
To wit: He’s an “alien,” a bona fide E.T.
So, to combat humans embracing belief in God, we craft the utterly ridiculous notion of little green men in flying saucers.
It’s like psychological inoculation.
Certainly letting that lie go to seed for generations — though it’s slower-acting — is cheaper and does far less reputational damage than maintaining a nationwide suite of concentration camps, and packing Believers into them like the CCP does.