read Karl Max, then you could get to the root of religion and politics.
Actually I've read almost all of what Karl Marx has written, and studied for years under the great Marxist, Dav.d H. DeGrood. Marx was thoroughly ignorant of the history of religion, and thus, was wrong on that subject. He read history THROUGH his own theories, and this colored his perspective.
Religion is not the "opiate of the people," more often than not, it has spurred people to revolution and liberty. The civil rights movement was in a large part a religious movement. The suffragette movement was in a large part a religious movement, the abolition movement was almost completely a religous movement -- doesn't look like many opiates there.
It is easy for people to catalogue the bad religion has been involved with, and there's no questioning that, but when you actually LOOK at the history, it's far from cut and dried.
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Actually I've read almost all of what Karl Marx has written, and studied for years under the great Marxist, Dav.d H. DeGrood. Marx was thoroughly ignorant of the history of religion, and thus, was wrong on that subject. He read history THROUGH his own theories, and this colored his perspective.
Religion is not the "opiate of the people," more often than not, it has spurred people to revolution and liberty. The civil rights movement was in a large part a religious movement. The suffragette movement was in a large part a religious movement, the abolition movement was almost completely a religous movement -- doesn't look like many opiates there.
It is easy for people to catalogue the bad religion has been involved with, and there's no questioning that, but when you actually LOOK at the history, it's far from cut and dried.
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