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Comment by kazinator

8 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_of_the_people

What are the odds that peddlers of religion would turn to promoting chemical drugs on the side ...

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cluckindan  8 months ago

There’s that word again: ”drugs” - you just know anyone using that word in earnest is suffering from a narrow and naïve world view imposed upon them by generations of propaganda.

There is a huge experiential chasm between opiates and psychedelics. These two groups of substances have nothing to do with each other.

  • itsoktocry  8 months ago

    >There’s that word again: ”drugs” - you just know anyone using that word in earnest is suffering from a narrow and naïve world view

    Do you know what a drug is?

  • kazinator  8 months ago

    Religion is not literally opium; Marx was speaking/writing figuratively. He just referred to a popular recreational of his time.