Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Atheism, Not Religion, is the Opiate of the Masses

      Karl Marx famously once said that “religion is the opiate of the masses.” While many people, especially in the West have discredited his ideas, they have not discredited all of them.  This is one of them. Not without seemingly logical (though I will argue as faulty) arguments, many people, particularly atheists, believe this idea, not because Marx said it, but because it seems like a true principle.

      And at first glance, it does!

      Us Christians don’t have to worry about life because we’ve got a big santa grandpa up in the clouds taking care of all our wishes and bruises while atheists “realize” that there is no such thing and they have to fix their own problems, right?
      
      Wrong.