OK isn't religon like kinda boring??? I suppose people need something to believe in....i personally find the notion impossible, where is God??? In the clouds???

Im probally a bit biased.....so id like to know what motivates people to follow a certain belief....

ALSO don't you all think that religion would be more fun if it involved tonnes of Dungeons and Dragons style Gods???? Becuase to me paganist style Gods of fire or war etc are far more believable than 1 single God.

(don't tell me im missing the whole point behind religion)

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I personally find religion confusing, as I am far too logical to accept something without proof. But that's just me. Boring? I personally quite enjoy going to events of the Religious Society of Friends (quakers), and they throw AWESOME parties. :P

ok...respect to those people...i knew a Quaker once....they Rock

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they do, they do......

Hello,

Anyone knows the origin and reason for the quote from Karl Marx, "Opium of the People"?

I read it actually derives from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:

1. Karl Marx is not really Anti-Religion. He simply described that "Religion" is something that will make someone forget their problems.

2. Could someone actually show me where it states: "Religion is the Opium of the People" in any of Karl Marx writings so I could see the whole context.

http://www.marxists.org/

3. Alexis De Tocqueville in "Democracy in America" states about Religion:

4. Similarly, this refers to the answer to Question 23 in the June draft which reads:

“All religions so far have been the expression of historical stages of development of individual peoples or groups of peoples. But communism is the stage of historical development which makes all existing religions superfluous and brings about their disappearance.”

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx...in-com.htm#ne1

Karl Marx has identified "religion" as an illusion because it does not interfere with realms of economics directly. However, it is unfortunate that Karl and Adam Smith has not identified that ISLAM has an economic system along with a belief system. Karl Marx was simply reinterpreting Hegel's philosophical viewpoint of Religion. Karl Marx was simply critiquing WESTERN "religion" which has been misused by the Upper Ruling Class,i.e.KINGS and RULERS of Europe.

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx...-hpr/intro.htm

You believe that socialism is a viable economic policy.

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Scandinavian societies seem to do pretty well

We have a winner. Orthodox and Catholic/Protestant Christianity have as their prime foundation not love but Divine Right of Rule. That's what Constantine loved best about it when he crafted it in his image and likeness in the finest tradition of Roman Emperors whose standard M.O. was to co-opt the religion of the conquered and fix it so that believers are invariably commanded to obey them as either actual gods or installed by God.

As long as there is one Bible anywhere that is held sacred by one person, the Roman Empire hasn't ever really died.

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