Religion is the opiate of the masses.
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so what do you think heroin withdrawal is like then?Sounds like a bunch of b.s. to justify continued use.
jwm
It seems to me a simple explanation is still religion takes away the pain of Capitalism while keeping us dumb....except that it isn't the correct quote nor is it the right interpretation.
In the complete quote Karl Marx calls religion “point d’honneur”, a spiritual response to the unjust world where “the struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion”. He doesn’t ridicule religion as the opium quote implies but sees his own ideas as the extension of the same struggle. Not only that but Karl Marx betrays the hyper religious, post judeo-christian context of this own theory when he writes that nothing short of the “world to come” can erase the superstition: “To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions”. That was in a way Marx’s own opium in one sentence since the “human essence has not acquired any true reality”. Yet instead of the crude opium reference there is that beautifully poetic conclusion “of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo”
http://benatlas.com/2011/06/karl-marx-beyond-the-opium-of-the-people/
Insert sports, TV, game boys, porno, etc for religion
Agree with this but it sure takes away from the importance of religion in the comment. You could even add the iinternet.It seems to me a simple explanation is still religion takes away the pain of Capitalism while keeping us dumb
Insert sports, TV, game boys, porno, etc for religion
A three or four day episode of the flu. None of this thousand times worse nonsense.so what do you think heroin withdrawal is like then?
jwm
And characteristic of dramatization common to addicts around the issue of withdrawal.The "thousand times worse" was a hyperbole, jwm
jwm
nowadays Church's are empty so what does that say about what Marx said ?
Centuries ago he was right in that the church controlled society and peoples beliefs but
I think he was wrong in principle
The masses want nothing to do with the state and are very easy to control through their beliefs and their beliefs are controlled by the press, which is controlled by the elite, not the church
They just want a decent job and entertainment and as long as they got that decent job those controlling the state economics can get as rich as they want
Our society is the best example in history of this phenomenon
Centuries ago he was right in that the church controlled society and peoples beliefs but
I think he was wrong in principle
The masses want nothing to do with the state and are very easy to control through their beliefs and their beliefs are controlled by the press, which is controlled by the elite, not the church
They just want a decent job and entertainment and as long as they got that decent job those controlling the state economics can get as rich as they want
Our society is the best example in history of this phenomenon
Ha ha ha and posters on internet bulletin boards.And characteristic of dramatization common to addicts around the issue of withdrawal.
jwm
