Man kills his two children over alleged "Serpent DNA".

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A surfing school owner who was charged with killing his two children in Mexico is a follower of QAnon and Illuminati conspiracy theories who thought the children "were going to grow into monsters so he had to kill them," federal officials alleged.

Matthew Taylor Coleman, 40, was charged Wednesday with foreign murder of U.S. nationals in connection with the death of his 2-year-old son and his 10-month-old daughter, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California.  Authorities said Coleman confessed to the killings and told the FBI that he used a spear fishing gun to stab them.

A criminal complaint alleges that he told the FBI that he killed his children because he believed they "were going to grow into monsters" and that conspiracy theories led him to believe that his wife had passed down her "serpent DNA" to the children.

Source:  This NBC News Article 

QAnon really undermines your faith in humanity's capacity to think rationally, doesn't it?

Yeah...it sort of does.....

How does one believe such things? It's like something from the pages of The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham. Except that's sci-fi...

The truth is that QAnon's goal IS to undermine humanity's capacity to think rationally -- no doubt about it.

It would, but I've been doing a deep dive on US political history recently, and it's really nothing new, it's just more visible due to the internet. Conspiracy theory really is in the American blood for some reason, the Bavarian Illuminati conspiracy was circulating around the time of the founding and shortly thereafter, and every decade seems to have it's own particular brand. My favorite is the Birchers in the 50s and 60s believing that Eisenhower was an active agent of the Communist International (as in an infiltrator, not just a useful idiot), which would require leaps of logic nearly as crazy as thinking your kids had serpent DNA. The difference back then is that we had gatekeepers; William F Buckley decided that the Birchers were too nuts and made his party look bad, so he drummed them out of the conservative movement using his magazine, National Review, as his mouthpiece. We don't really have anything like that anymore, and since conspiracy theorists tend to be anti authority, they'd just take it as a badge of honor anyway.

Conspiracey Theories can be very dangerous as we see .

Advice for anybody - keep your consumption of such info/disinfo to a minimum

Well, considering it's birthplace is 4chan (trolls den), I for one am not surprised.

Has anyone ever looked into the origins of sovereign citizen ideology? It's a conspiracy theory that's arguably several times older than the US and yet still has influence.