RE: Hi!
March 12, 2012 at 3:14 pm
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2012 at 3:14 pm by NoMoreFaith.)
(March 12, 2012 at 2:35 pm)Atheist Anarchist Wrote: "Religion is the opium of the people" - Karl Marx (good guy)
I'm guessing you know that isn't actually a quote, but a paraphrase of the full sentence. He never actually said that.
Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real distress and the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions. - Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
When you factor in "heart of the heartless world", its not quite as negative as its usually made out to be.
The full quote is far finer than the abbreviation too, I should really get around to trying to read the full text.
Self-authenticating private evidence is useless, because it is indistinguishable from the illusion of it. ― Kel, Kelosophy Blog
If you’re going to watch tele, you should watch Scooby Doo. That show was so cool because every time there’s a church with a ghoul, or a ghost in a school. They looked beneath the mask and what was inside?
The f**king janitor or the dude who runs the waterslide. Throughout history every mystery. Ever solved has turned out to be. Not Magic. ― Tim Minchin, Storm
If you’re going to watch tele, you should watch Scooby Doo. That show was so cool because every time there’s a church with a ghoul, or a ghost in a school. They looked beneath the mask and what was inside?
The f**king janitor or the dude who runs the waterslide. Throughout history every mystery. Ever solved has turned out to be. Not Magic. ― Tim Minchin, Storm
