I have always had real opium.sux for those who don't
Maybe they’d rather live in ignorance of that fact, don’t you think?
When I was young and idiotic I used to quote what Karl Marx said but I’d only ever heard “religion is the opium of the people.” Marx thought religion was what happened because of the condition of the world. It was a form of protest by the working classes. I never understood what he actually meant from that small line - “religion is the opium of the people.” Sometimes you have to take the whole of a thing to make sense of the small pieces of it. Same with god and religion. He never really was critiquing religion but the conditions of the society and how bad it had been for religion to exist.
People believe because they’ve been brought up to believe, because they are scared there’s nothing that comes after, because they feel a connection to something else. All these statements, small pieces of something bigger.
Marx said that religion was there for “the exploitation and the stupefaction of the working class”. I totally agree with that. Religion controls but it also comforts and when you’re in a system that’s hard to break out of you need some comfort.
I do not in anyway believe in a god or an afterlife. I do believe that people should believe whatever they want though, with free minds and hearts, which in of itself is something to ponder.
Anyway, it was like 7am when I woke up and started this and now it’s 7:50 because I’ve been sitting thinking about it for so long yet what I’ve wrote is making little sense. So I apologise, I’ve a temperature and I think I’ve this virus. Pray for me, those that believe. Can’t hurt right?