Is religion an opiate?

>>3031683
Nope

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>>3031692
Why?

>>3031683
No more than any ideology is

>>3031764
Ok, so it's an opiate found inside a trash can? I thought medical facilities couldn't throw out drugs for that reason?

And we're eating it...who's throwing out all this Oxy?

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>tfw to inteligent to not forsake religions my teachings echo (teachings which seek the uplifting of the mostly religious proletariat)

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>>3031692
https://unews.utah.edu/this-is-your-brain-on-god/

Same long term side effects of opiates as well:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/religious-experiences-shrink-part-of-brain/

http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/1792140

...and here I always thought Marx was talking figuratively.

opiates are the opiates of the masses though....


damn........

>>3031683
Yeah, but Marxism is the meth of the masses.

it's the most efficient drug to move and control the masses.

>>3031683
It's more like ibuprofen. It relieves pain *and* genuinely heals the soul.

Religion does influence people to keep their feet quiet. However, this needn't be an exclusively bad thing. I, for one, like the prospect of living in a stable society better than that of living in a constant state of uproar and infighting.

Wgy would the concept of hell exist if it we're only an opiate?