Conspiracies

I just watching a great show called - Futurama (well not as good as Simpsons) but still good!
Well their take on the 1947 Roswell sightings in New Mexico is that it was the Professor and the crew stuck in a time machine who travelled back time and crash landed in Roswell and left Bender's parts behind. This of course is one of the many theories surrounding Roswell and UFOs and all the other conspiracies. Which of course led me to think why we are obsessed with conspiracies. Why with every event small or big a conspiracy theory is born. For example, the "real truth" behind man walking on the moon and Bermuda triangle and crop circles and the list continues. Of course the flat earth society can NOT be classed as a conspiracy theory...! I will not go there ....

One of the greatest conspiracies of our time is The Da Vinci Code. The best selling book of all time is The Bible and The Da Vinci Code is the 12th best selling book (still going), so see we have conspiracy theories for our religions as well!! Do you believe in The Da Vinci Code? Do you believe in Christianity? Do you believe in religion? Although I enjoyed the book a lot and there is riveting information in the book, I am still not entirely convinced that Jesus Christ is a mortal. I am willing to accept that it is one of the possibilities but i am not going to accept its the only possibility. Why? Perhaps because i refuse to accept that a faith that has kept my mother, grand mother and great grand mother alive all these years is a lie. Well lets just say I have good reasons to believe that its only ONE of the possibilities...

What is also interesting is why humans have this innate need to doubt everything they are told. Guess some of the great innovations of our times have come into being due to doubt and curiosity. But that aside, why do we come up with conspiracy theories? More importantly do conspiracy theories benefit us in any way? If not then why do we come up with them???

Your thoughts?