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Religion is the opiate of the masses
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idea
)
by
kloc
Sun Aug 25 2002 at 20:12:11
Original quote:
"
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."(
Marx
)
Variations:
"
Marxism
is the
opium
of the intellectuals."(
Edmund Wilson
)
"In the United States today,
opiates
are the religion of
the people
."(
Thomas Szasz
)
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chaos
Your radical ideas about religion as a mechanism of social control have already occurred to others
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