Observations and inanities by a second-shift assistant supervisor in the Puppy-Grinding division of the Evil Atheist Conspiracy® (our motto: "Sure it's cruel, but think of the jobs!"), your host, Brent Rasmussen.
Opiate of the Masses
Karl Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." I suspect he meant it in the sense that religion, like Opium, is a pain killer. But what if he meant that Opium and religion are both effective techniques for disconnecting the mind from reality or putting the mind into an irrational state?
One way to assess this is to watch how people defend religion. It's not very different from the way alcoholics defend drinking. Alcoholics apologize, deny it's a problem etc. The only difference is that you don't have to hide religion because unlike excess drinking, excess religion is though to be a good .
A funny thought. "This is your brain. This is your brain on religion."
If religion is a drug, then true drugs are competition for religon That would explain why the "War on Drugs" is such a big deal. Religion can't afford competition. It would weaken the flock and the power of those that lead the flock. Though Sam Harris (The End of Faith) suggests the war on drugs is actually a war on sin, I like my idea better.
This also suggest that billions of people are "drug" addicts.
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Opiate of the masses
Religion is 100% a drug for the masses. Religion is brain control just like drugs. The only difference between religion and drugs are that drugs themselves exert a force of control on you. In religion they themselves, the "book" or people that you follow, must convince you to believe that you cant live without it and that you need it. Does this not make religion even worse than drugs? For when you are addicted to drugs and trying to escape from there control people are there helping you get free, what about religion? When you realize that what people are trying to force you to learn is all BS what do they do? Let you go? or try and tell you that you are being led astray by an evil been. Maybe i am a little biased, but personally i wouldnt listen to a drug addict tell me how amazing drugs are and i wouldnt listen to people coming to my door telling me how horrible i am and that the only way i will become a better person then the rest of the world is if i devote my life to this mystical been that is not proven to exist and can not be proven, well who really knows but at the present time cant be proven. Well that would be my rant of the day. Science or Religion is the real question at the end of the day, do you listen to something you can see or something that you are told?
-C to the D, as of now an aspiring agnostic physics student