(August 15, 2010 at 6:38 pm)Captain Scarlet Wrote: What does it mean to pray to god?
It means keeping occupied and not doing to much to make improvements yourself. As Marx called it: "the opium of the people."
(--though Marx did put the cart before the horse-- he thought getting rid of religion would naturally help lead to improved social and economic conditions. I tend to think it is the other way round: Improving social and economic conditions naturally make religion irrelevant. Its no wonder religion has a much more diminished role in many European nations, whereas the US is the only developed nation that still thrives on religion. The greater a nation's insecurity, the greater a nation's religious fervor).
“Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.” ~ E.M. Cioran