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If religion is the opium of the people shouldn’t we seek to abolish religion as well as narcotic drugs?
Let’s face it it’s really hard to understand modern science. Modern physics, the science that seeks to explain physical reality, is intensely mathematical and very difficult to fathom. Relativity, quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, electromagnetism and quantum electrodynamics, atomic and subatomic particles, quarks and quantum chromodynamics, superstrings, twistors, branes, etc., etc., etc. It isn’t so much the more you understand the more you see, it’s more like the more you see the more there is to see but it’s all very difficult to grasp and takes a lot of effort.
Religion is much less demanding. You can become a messiah overnight. All you need is to skim through some sort of a holy book, e.g., the mishmash of Hebrew and Greek scripture commonly known as the Bible, persuade yourself that you understand the words of the deity and can therefore interpret his/her/its will, in human terms, on behalf of all others on Earth and you’re done! What an easy way to gain power and influence over people without any need to demonstrate your quality, attainment or qualifications. Then all you need to do is to draw enough gullible people into your fantasy with you and you become a religious leader!
Would you allow an unqualified fantasist to carry out a surgical procedure on someone you cared about in an operating theatre or would you prefer to put their life in the hands of a properly qualified and experienced medical practitioner? So why are so many men and women willing to have their behaviour, morality and lifestyle dictated by a religious fantasist who has stated, without evidence, that they have a special dispensation from the godhead to reveal mankind’s divine purpose?
If religion was outlawed in the same way that drugs have been outlawed human beings would be much more likely to adopt a more humanistic outlook which would undoubtedly improve and extend humanity’s future as a species that has evolved on Earth and is confined, at present, to live only on that one planet in the solar system.
For the sake of our species I believe we should abolish religion and God as soon as possible.
What do you think?
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Interesting.
To everyone who has responded I offer my sincere thanks. Can I invite readers to submit their opinion on the following hypothesis: People become religious because they are inherently too stupid to understand modern science?
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hOlly – Don’t let anyone dim the light in your eyes; question and subject to analysis everything you read or see or hear from any source.
batgirl2good – I’m not really much like Hitler; in point of fact he was a Catholic. I consider myself a humanist. Here’s the link you asked for:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_of_the_people
You really must have bats in your belfry if you haven’t heard of Karl Marx!
You should refrain from commenting on questions when you are clearly so dippy and clueless. Stop hanging upside down from the rafters! Too much blood will go to your head!
Lizzy – Congratulations on getting your two point for a completely irrelevant answer. You are funny however and made me smile. Sadly I despise the Jonas Brothers almost as much as sectarian religion and its mass of puffed up pontificating prophets and preachers.
I’m Ron Burgundy – Ever heard of suicide bombers? I rest my case.
righteousJohnson – Shouldn’t that be self-righteousJohnson? Here’s Marx’s actual quote in the original German:
“Die Religion … ist das Opium des Volkes”
You get zero marks – or even Marx – for translation of languages in this test!
Virtuous – I cannot thank you enough for your compliment. What an honour to be compared to the author of that great book “Letter to a Christian Nation”. Thank you. And I mean that most sincerely. Personally I think it’s more likely that some kind of religious zealot – Christian, Islamic or otherwise – would order nuclear weapons to be used against a civilian population. Stalin was logical? That’s news to me. Pardon my scepticism but you’ve got so many other points wrong in your answer that I think there is a high probability that you might be wrong about Stalin logicality based on your previous track record.
I’m gonna sing the doom song – Despite your incomprehensible lunatic alias I have read your answers to Yahoo! questions and believe you to be a tolerant, intelligent and well-balanced individual. I’m not religious myself but I am kind of fond of pagans in general and wiccans in particular, so I’m not going to critique your answer. Just leave your broomstick in my parking garage next time you visit and not by the kerb or you may incur a penalty!
bmat_2255 – You sound like you’ve been smoking too much weed to me man. Cut down on the herb until its smoke leaves you brain and your head clears.
sculptorclay and vambo the forth – What you say is true when abolition creates a vacuum that remain unfilled by something better. I’m suggesting that any vacuum created sans religion could be filled with a more principled logical and scientifically rooted morality and system of ethics. Of course the population would have to be intelligent enough to understand the new paradigm.
Socraticmethod15 – Your sweetness, simplicity and dignity is disarming. You are historically incorrect in one or two of the points you make but I’m not going to argue with you because if I do I’ll feel like a bully.
Hopefully I may get more responses before this question expires but I confess that the answers so far have been interesting
you have a point but i know that a LOT of people wont agree x
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I say you’re a bigot and must be a lot like Hitler.
I’ve never heard that"religion is the opium of the people."
Got a link for that?
I will tell you this: You can never abolish a person’s beliefs.
You sound like a fanatic who wants to brainwash others into believing the same as you do.
NO, people do not become religious because they are too stupid to understnad modern science. How ridiculous!
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For one thing, narcotics can physically kill you, sometimes on the spot. I’ve never seen a religious fanatic die from an overdose.
Edit: Suicide bombers? Wow, Kamikaze pilots were suicidal as well, but didn’t have a religious connotation. The ratio of suicide bombers to normal religious people is probably like 1: 1,000,000.
It would be illogical to abolish religion, which makes so many people happy. You want to help the community by taking something away from it, that won’t work.
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No, we’ve just abolished Karl Marx instead ("Opiate of the people", is his quote).
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I think you sound like Sam Harris, who is an intolerant bigot.
And I think atheists will accomplish these goals "for the sake of the community."
If someone made a logical argument to wipe out part of the human race, you idiots would probably listen.
Stalin was logical too.
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I feel that people can worship whatever they want as long as they keep it to themselves unless asked, you can’t take away peoples freedoms. I feel the constitution should be upheld Including separation of church and state. (that mean no forced prayers in school and legalized gay marriage as well.)
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Wiccan
Chillout man, whats up with you today, relax, dont think too much, go with the flow, you will have peace of mind.
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Outlawing religion would not work. The Soviet Union outlawed religion and the people there did not become any more Humanistic. Furthermore people should have the right to believe what they want to believe.
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Opium may have been "abolished", but there’s plenty of it. Tons and tons of it. People want it. Same with religion. I’ve never understood why people think you can make ANYTHING go away by abolishing it,
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I think you’re positively bananas.
Life is more irrational and violent without religion than with it. Beyond that, you may compare religion with opium, but you are incorrect in saying it IS a drug. It was only an analogy by Karl Marx, and I wouldn’t say the mind of Karl Marx was infallible or all-knowing.
Beyond that, I thought this was Yahoo Answers, not Yahoo Ranting.
<<People become religious because they are inherently too stupid to understand modern science?>>
I’m sure it’s possible, but are you aware that in the middle ages, all scientific advances were in the monasteries? Also another thought. Beyond that, many of the great thinkers of the world had a belief in some sort of deity, and some even had a religion.
You are thinking in generalities, and in this case it is not really a good thing.
God bless!
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Catholic
We don´t have to wipe out religion altogether – though that would be really nice. We only need to wipe out Christianity and Islam (Judaism should also be wiped out since it creates very dangerous offshoot religions. With the 3 Abrahamic faiths gone world peace could be a few steps closer.
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