This is a random message, but recently I've been reading a lot of manga and stories with religious themes. However, I'm gay and have religious trauma so I don't see myself returning to it. But I'm also afraid I'm making a mistake in doing so. Do you think you can point me in tue right direction book wise or christian witch creators? I'm completely new to this and don't want to learn incorrect or conspiracy theory information. Thank you 🩵😊
The best way to avoid internalizing conspiracy theories is to improve your critical thinking and research skills, and to research them from a critical or academic perspective and to learn real history and science. Avoiding "bad" fiction is neither a good nor realistic plan, given that tropes associated with conspiracy theories are found in probably the majority of science fiction and fantasy, and frequently pop up in other forms of fiction as well.
(Avoiding "bad" fiction is the puritan/reactionary's answer to social problems, and it has never fixed a single thing because it's about giving in to a gut reaction telling you to avoid confronting the problem instead of carefully analyzing it to find the actual best solution.)
Here are some resources:
Information Literacy Basics
Critical Thinking Skills: Definitions, Examples, and How to Improve Them
11 Characteristics of Pseudoscience
Six Ways To Debunk Any Conspiracy Theory
Miniminuteman
ESOTERICA
Angela's Symposium
BS-Free Witchcraft
Digital Hammurabi
Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman podcast
It's Probably (not!) Aliens (this is the YouTube page for the podcast, but if you search for it you can find it on other platforms)
Behind The Bastards
Tales of Times Forgotten (you can search the blog for topical words like Atlantis, aliens, antisemitism, conspiracy theory, witch, or whatever)
Jason Colavito's blog (again, you can search for topics)
Conspirituality Podcast
Gutsick Gibbon (debunks young earth creationist claims, do not overlook this one!)
Edit: Adding these. If you're trying to educate yourself on conspiracy theory tropes, consider them required reading:
Check your conspiracy theory. Does it sound anything like this?
Check your conspiracy theory part two: double, double, boil and trouble
Check Your Conspiracy Theory Part Three: Babylonian Mysteries?? In My Religion???