I am not often fond of Marx, that poor fool never recognized the problems inherent in his rather incoherent and unrealistic philosophy, but I think an intelligent man, no matter how delusional he may occasionally have the right idea. What idea? Simple: “Die Religion… ist das Opium des Volkes”, that is, Religion is the opium of the (common) people. There is no doubt that he is absolutely right about this, opiates and religion are the same thing. An opiate-addicted man finds his world happier under the influence of poppy latex, sees the value of life through the dreamy gaze of opium-induced euphoria, and acts neurotically and delusionally with his mind compromised by the induced stupor from opiates. carries on himself. So it is with religion, as humans find their happy and meaningful world with opium, so they do with religion. As with the neuroses of opium-induced delusions, religion forces man to persecute those who refuse to conform, oppresses progress in the name of dogma, flies planes into buildings, demands the removal of secular ideas from government in name of theocracy, is an existential threat to every progressive idea. It too poses an existential threat to the world we live in, as jihadists and supposedly modern leaders who call themselves crusaders fight for control of the Middle East, pushing the world ever closer to all-out war in the name of mythologies and imaginary neuroses. In this conflict, the greatest threat to human existence must be clearly pointed out and eliminated, the nihilistic faith of Christianity. While Islam is not a progressive faith by any measure, it does not threaten the very idea of freedom in the world, as it is fundamentally not rooted in Western culture where… middle of paper… by force, their churches must be transformed into people's homes or science museums, their textbooks on Creation Science burned, their children transformed into atheists and their preachers locked up in mental asylums. Their status as a religion should be replaced with one of mental disorder, and those who believe in their backward and barbaric ideologies should be subjected to heavy medical treatment and given thorough education in matters of reality. I admit, this is not in the spirit of modern freedom, but if we refuse to act, we will see the complete destruction of humanity enacted perhaps by these fanatics in the United States. To save the world, we must destroy their ecstasy-obsessed, neurotic, imbecilic philosophy, so that religion can finally be allowed to die in the West, leading to a future of progress free from the Bronze Age moral ideas that Christians paint as truth.
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