Don't you just love that saying? It just hits the nail right on the head.
2007-11-28 08:05:22 · 10 answers · asked by Alex H 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Not really. Religion is more like a non-invasive lobotomy.
2007-11-28 08:08:13 · answer #1 · answered by Pull My Finger 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋
It's a fairly inaccurate quote.
At the time religion was the opiate of the masses, opiates were the only painkillers in use in hospitals.
It's a quote with depth. Opiates can be soothing or deadly, soothe people better in the right hands and destroy them in the wrong ones. Opiates are not a good or bad thing in and of themselves.
Context, context, context.
No one ever quotes "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." They focus on contrasting it with modern day opium.
A better modernization would be "religion is the blue Linus blanket of the oppressed, the vicodin of the people."
2007-11-28 08:09:52 · answer #2 · answered by LabGrrl 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The poor man's opium?
Wow, whoever said that is a moron. Do you have ANY idea how rich the Vatican is?
2007-11-28 08:15:55 · answer #3 · answered by CanadianFundamentalist 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's "Religion is the opiate of the masses."
I like it because I can see his point, although I don't totally agree with it. Some people take it too far, others don't.
2007-11-28 10:34:08 · answer #4 · answered by Bookworm 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well... as Bill Waterson put it: Marx had no idea. As far as opiates go, religion is peanuts compared to TV.
2007-11-28 08:15:19 · answer #5 · answered by Ray Patterson - The dude abides 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's probably the least accurate thing I've heard in this section.
I don't know about other people, but I've never really had a high while sitting in church when I was young. More like a low. Felt like falling asleep.
2007-11-28 08:09:10 · answer #6 · answered by Basil 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
That is the opinion of a godless person.
There are many, of both.
2007-11-28 08:10:19 · answer #7 · answered by hisgloryisgreat 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
good old Karl Marx... if he wasn't a socialist, he might not have been that bad of a guy :p
2007-11-28 08:10:28 · answer #8 · answered by Pitchy 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Marx, I dont believe in marxicm (:
2007-11-28 08:13:21 · answer #9 · answered by voyager 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I've never heard that before but I like it
LOL @ SOURCE
2007-11-28 08:09:27 · answer #10 · answered by ηιgнт ѕтαя 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋