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Originally Posted by woot
I always thought that Marx's "opiate of the people" remark was a positive thing. Wasn't he referring to religion as a good way for people to be able to deal with life, rather than as a pejorative "religion is for stupid sheep" type of thing? I could be totally wrong on that.
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Marx does not like religion, but he understood why people valued it. In his view, one has to cast it aside to overcome alienation and false consciousness.
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"Do not despise the words of prophets, but test everything; hold fast to what is good; " 1 Thess. 5:21 (NRSV)
We all trust our own unorthodoxies.
Last edited by Sleeping in EQ; 12-22-2007 at 09:08 PM.
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