Reply #33: The Opiate of the Masses

[NeoLotus]

Old Mouse wrote:

When their personal conviction of their own inherent value was not validated by their life experiences, they did not become rich or famous, they compensated by creating the delusion of a unique relationship and importance to God.

I just happened to catch CNN last night doing a report on evangelicals. They had a shot of a guy in a church singing. He had his eyes closed and had an almost blissed out look, but I could also detect that he is also hurting in his life, most likely due to economic factors.

Anyway, I realized in seeing him what Marx referred to as religion being the opiate of the masses.

Mouse's point above relates to the lack of compassion and humaneness in our governmental policies and and I see its crippling effects on people, and this has the effect of driving people to religion for spiritual relief of some kind. Unfortunately, it's the wrong "religion."

On another but related note, what needs to happen for these people is to have their "leaders" discredited. These are pious Christians that have been severly brainwashed and are part of a massive cult. In this case, if you cut off the head, you kill the snake. But the head of this snake can also be like a hydra, so we need lots of intelligence gathering on this. If you know anyone good at this kind of research, please email me.

LotusFawkes