Point 1:
Read a lot about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_denial
While I will say first off that denying the Holocaust is pretty stupid, there are certain points these people raise that warrant looking into. The most striking one of which is the actual people killed by Nazis in concentration camps. The most well-known one, Auschwitz, keeps having its death toll scaled down, yet the total amount of people killed doesn't.
Again, it's not saying these atrocities did not happen. I just think that people are way too sensitive about the subject of WWII, so sensitive that they'd rather leave it alone and not research it any further, and that's a terrible way of dealing with things.
Point 2:
The proof is often fairly sparse and a lot of it is filled in by baseless conjecture. That's why it reminds me of the 9/11 being an inside job thing, because it completely ignores how the world works and fills in gaps (which in the 9/11 conspiracy was created by conspiracy theorists) with fiction. It's sad.
As said earlier in the thread, Illuminati may have been real at some point. They might still be real. But controlling the entire world? Again, with the amount of people that have to be working along for that to be possible, you might as well go public.
Not to mention that there is nothing known about where they tend to meet, their rituals and ceremonies, etc. It's just "that secret society". Bohemian Grove is a secret society that a lot of US presidents are/were members of, yet even though it's supposedly secret we know a lot about what happens during their meetings.
Point 3:
While I will agree that there are more people that believe the Illuminati are real, you'd be surprised how many people believe the moon landing never actually happened (and even more surprised at the amount of people that believe the moon is a hologram). It has no impact on the theories themselves though, as having that many people believing the conspiracy theory is the truth doesn't actually make it the truth.
Point 4:
My point there was that people should look at things more objectively and actually challenge their own beliefs to see if they actually hold up. You see it as me putting people down, but it's them putting themselves down. If you're that convinced by a theory after doing very little research of your own, you're honestly no better than people that blindly follow their government, because you are blindly following another group.
It's an embarrassing thing to admit, but about a year after 9/11 I believed it was a conspiracy as well. The way the whole conspiracy theory had been constructed made it seem airtight. Then I realized I was being a hypocritical idiot and did my own research. There are still some shady things about it, but a lot of the claims the "truthers" made were fairly obviously false.
The Pentagon being hit by a missile in particular. I swear, just trust me when I say it was hit by an airplane with passengers and don't do your own research into it.
Unless you like seeing crispy people.
