First of all, hello all; I'm new.
I have to say that this is probably the biggest problem with the FET. I would honestly be interested to hear how the government is making money by lying to the world about what shape the earth is.
I disagree. I might have trouble understanding some of the FE science but the conspiracy angle for me makes perfect sense.
RET makes you an insignificant speck on a tiny pebble in a massive ocean of much bigger and more important things. It takes god's magical table top kingdom and warps it into a complicated system that only the guy's at the top can explain to you. RET takes the deliberately unexplainable, explains it and in the process creates slaves who have no relationship to the thing that gave them life. Slaves create wealth and power for the slave owners so i guess you could still say it's about money only it's more subtle than that.
I am most definitely not religious, i do not believe in the Creator through faith but because we live in a creation. Evolution theory was a lie, so too dinosaurs/missing links/aliens etc. We are left with the Creator as a result of reasoning, as there's no third choice. Put simply, there are many god removing frauds and i would class RET as a possible addition.
Rowbotham would agree with me up to a point as he too thought RET removed god only i get the feeling he didn't think it was deliberate. I would have been happy to talk to him about why i believe religions are god removing frauds too.
Here's a link to some posts i made regarding the dino scam in case you still believe in giant lizard monsters (post no.97).
http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=83674&page=10