“he had been deceived”
Ben, like so many others, you wanted to be deceived. You wanted to lord it over others to comply. You ignored the easy-to-understand, readily available information. Apparently covidism acts as your religion... your proclaimed religion apparently doesn’t cut it. Maybe you should rethink things.
The Bible says in Revelation 18:23…for by thy sorceries (in Hebrew that word is pharmakia) we’re all nations deceived. I think that passage has been fulfilled.