It is true that people latch on to conspiracy theories when they feel let down by everything in life. Rather than pointing the lens at themselves in narrow focus, they turn it the opposite way and widen the field, distorting the entire landscape and anything that comes in the view finder becomes probable, no matter how absurd.
For these people, this is the only way they can make "sense" (nonsense) out of what they perceive is chaos.
But wait... everything IS chaos! The only thing between us remaining human beings and us becoming unconscious animals again is our culture, ( our laws, and knowledge ) without that we would quickly devolve out of consciousness again. We would become animals and ruled by the absolute universal chaos again.
Don't you see this state we are in now as human beings is very fragile? Christianity, like other religions are based on more Ancient knowledge and it deserves some respect because it brought on western society and allowed us to be where we are right now today. But it's already turning again because Christianity also warns us of what is happening now. Devolution has already begun. Our free will is being replaced.
So religion could be our only chance to remain conscious beings. How long more do you think we will even need our own brain, or make our own decisions?