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I do know that my life would have been different without Christianity. Poor people have the same problems, but poor Christians avoided the vices like drinking and smoking, and philandering. They had hope. Probably that’s why I’m such a pro-Christian...who is not a believer.
Marx called religion the opiate of the masses (though there is more context to what he meant). Poor people lost religion and found....opioids. Religion offered hope of another life. We can empirically see what post-Christian America looks like. A stadium of overdoes a year.
Factories closed. Towns fell. You know what saved a lot of small towns? Prisons. Small towns began competing to become the home of a new prison. (One reason decriminalization arguments don’t land is because crimes are prisons are jobs.)
Whenever you talk about poverty, people jump in to remind you it’s worse elsewhere. Why? Because poverty isn’t something we’re supposed to notice in America. It’s the forbidden topic.
My grandmother was a legal immigrant and maid.. most of her life. She was grateful. Her children had opportunities. Blessings.
“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed, the heart of a heartless world, the soul of soulless conditions - the morphine of the people” (our translation). Marxist analysis also offers a more accurate explanation of the opioid epidemic than victim-blaming: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2622774/ ….pic.twitter.com/3nez8PgxDc
Hmm where I’m from it was mostly Middle to upper middle class kids who got caught up and I live in a town that got hit so hard it made the national news so don’t blame it all on poverty. The daughter of a police chief in our town got caught up in the heroin game it’s not poverty
I have proof off all of it. My brother also got caught up just like many of our peers and none of us are poor and all of us Christian there is something far more sinister an awful going on like big Pharm,,doctors giving pills& Government officials the worst being @RepTomMarino
Sold their souls and millions of Americans suffered the consequences of their evilness! @RepTomMarino Tom Marino has so much blood on his hands idk how he wakes up every morning.
Priests fiddling with kids is a massive reason for people turning their back on the church..in a lot of instances, the church only has themselves to blame
Impressive insights Mike. Much respect.
^ this is such a great point!!!
Demonizing drug use to the point of prohibiting study is why this is happening.
#Addictive substances release endorphins, endorphins reduce stress... So does community... especially a dogmatic one. The Bible commands atrocities you are too good a man to even imagine @Cernovich.
Keyword "demonizing" a religious term for a religious temperament.
That was Nietzsche, not Marx btw
My mistake, Marx said it too.
Sounds more like growing up Christian just laid groundwork for you to be open to having "faith." The difference between ppl who have faith and those who don't is gaping...
You’re onto something here.
neo marxism is the opiate of the masses
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