[lbo-talk] Appeal to Ignorance

Autoplectic autoplectic at gmail.com
Sun Jun 12 15:52:43 PDT 2005


On 6/12/05, Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:


> I have to side with ol' Whiskers on this one: religion is the opiate
> of the masses. Theological debate is nothing more than a symptom of
> and a distraction from the sensual-practical problems that plague
> workers in a capitalist society. --If all the energy
> people have devoted to "the question of God" were redirected to
> organizing workers and dealing with tangible social problems like
> poverty, the world would be an immensely better place.
>
> Miles

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Spring, 2005 in the USA is only the most recent example of what happens when religion becomes the methamphetamine of large swathes of a populace.

-- "Life sure is weird but what else am I to know?" [Jason Pierce]



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