2007-08-16 08:08:54 · 13 answers · asked by scott p 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yea when I say use God as a Drug, I mean drugs are bad, and people end up spending to much time and money on god and it hurts them. I have seen it and its sad.
2007-08-16 08:20:20 · update #1
It could be very much so that people use God as a drug. As a Christian, I see no problem with this.
God does not break down in your liver and poison you from the inside.
God does not keep you awake for days on end and cause dangerous hallucinations.
God does not numb your body to pain and cause you to do harm to yourself.
God does not impair your vision or cause you to slam into a family of 6 and take their lives.
You do pay tithes to the church, and we as Christians have no problems with this. I am also a Mason, and I have no problem donating money for the children's hospitals or orphanages we support. If you are greedy and selfish, I can see where this might become an issue.
In that sense, I am an addict. I am addicted to my religion and my God. The 'high' that I get for my money is knowing where my soul will go when I die. Some may say that I don't know for sure. I believe with all of my heart that I do know. That piece of mind is priceless. The other 'highs' I get is knowing that I can count on any member of my church or any other Christian for that matter, should I ever find myself in a bind. I could make one phone call right now and have close to 100 people at my house within one hour. That is the power and benefit of this drug.
Do some people use God as a drug - Yes.
Does it hurt them - No
2007-08-16 09:39:58 · answer #1 · answered by cplkittle 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Religion is the opiate of the masses.
- Karl Marx
At the end of the movie The God Who Wasn't There, they identify the people coming from a Billy Graham or some such revival with the note, "Yes, they really seemed to be that happy. In fact, we got a contact high just from being around them."
2007-08-16 08:22:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think that some people get a high of religion and not in a good way. I think that is true for all things though, but yeah I have met people who use God as a drug.
2007-08-16 08:13:06 · answer #3 · answered by like the ocean needs the waves 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Religion is the opium of the people.
Karl Marx.
or in full context:
Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man—state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d'honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.
Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. 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. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.
2007-08-16 08:14:48 · answer #4 · answered by Simon T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you had to choose between people using God as a drug and people using drugs, which would you prefer?
2007-08-16 08:14:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You may have a point..... and a good one at that....... YES, I guess by somes' way of thinking, I do use God as a drug...... and if that is the way you or others want or need to look at it, then please feel free to do so....... because there is NO high like the HIGH I get from knowing God........ *wink*....... God bless
2007-08-16 08:13:58 · answer #6 · answered by Annie 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, very much so. I think religion taken past a point becomes like an addiction. I also have seen some addicts or former alcoholics who really latched onto it and it seems trade one dependency and addiction for another.
2007-08-16 08:15:35 · answer #7 · answered by Zen Pirate 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
yes, After doing most of the drugs out there I can say God has been the Best.
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And what I mean- you don't understand a relationship someone could have with the Drug/God.
Its an individual person that can be bad not neccassary the drug or their God.
I'm not condoning drug use But I can't bash anyone because I've done them.
2007-08-16 08:15:40 · answer #8 · answered by Bobbie 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I use crack to speak with God.
2007-08-16 08:11:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would want my money back
2007-08-16 08:12:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋