How come charlatans who spout "prophecies" about deities

>>1120246
Plenty of people made fun of them back then
But today you can be locked up and drugged for talking like that whether you have divine providence or not

You're not giving ancient people enough credit. For example, Muhammad was mocked for peacefully spreading his "visions". He realised that violence and terror was the best way to spread beliefs and Islam was born.

Jesus was seen as a lunatic and Christians as twisted cultists for centuries

>>1120246
>How come charlatans who spout "prophecies" about deities today are mocked, but centuries ago people bought into their shit by the thousands?

Have you ever met a conspiracy theorist? If you go to a party full of people, and someone's talking about NWO, lizard people, 9/11, etc. There's always a bunch of retards who legitimately believe that.

>>1120279
>normies talk about conspiracies at parties
what alternate universe is this

>>1120320
When I went to my friend's birthday parties, I always found when the Chads and bro-dudes get drunk, they start talking about lizard people, illuminati, brain wave control, etc.