If religion is the opiate of the masses, what would the gateway drug be?
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Television.  Story to follow Fox news @ nine.
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Zero, since pornography addiction is made up by religious proselytizers to make people feel bad about themselves.
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Religious fanaticism.
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i am catholic but i believe most of what you said especially the end part. people trust catholicism for the same reason they trust any other religion (i don't know why i follow the religion i am just guided) people use religion because they have weak minds and hearts. there is nothing wrong with this but religion gives them somethin to hold onto. someone in history i believe it was Marx or Stalin said the church was the "opiate of the masses"
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dont bother trying to find god, hes fictional an opiate for the people.
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Alcohol, they say that marijuanna is the gateway drug but truly many more teens drink first and that leads to the drugs.  and not to mention the a**hole alcholics of the world...
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drugs allow for demons to enter your mind and control you and make you against God and Jesus...so u tell me
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Organized crime is the only thing that comes close to religion.\n\nBut, they are the same thing, so I guess there is nothing that really comes close.
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They are the drug dealers of relegion.  The try to get you to try something so that you will get hooked and then keep going back to them for further doses.
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Opium is a highly addictive drug derived from poppy seeds - it is used to produce such Illegal drugs as Heroin, but is also used to provide controlled medical drugs.\n\nAny drug which is derived from Opium is known as an Opiate.
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Morphine is a painkiller. The rest is self-explanatory.
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What if God smoked Cannabis?\nSmoked a bong like some of us,\nDrove a tie-dyed micro bus,\nAnd subscribed to Rolling Stone?
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I think mormons limit their lives so much so to the point it becomes boring and I wouldnt justify Kabllah by even calling it a religion. Its just a celebrity fad. And scientology seems absurd in the fact that they refuse to take medicine. God invented it so I don't understand why they wont just break down and take it.
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Religion is a tool for mass control and like every tool it can be used for the purpose of good and evil depends on who's using it.
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A pagan one. :-P Pagan religions were the majority until Christianity came along.
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No, because the people who cling to a religion are people who need discipline and restraint in their lives. Underneath all that "Jesus loves me!" euphoria they hang on to deep fears of divine wrath. Without their religion to hold them back, I honestly believe some of them would have no qualms about murder, rape, stealing, etc.
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Another contradiction!!!! Seriously though, my grandparents believe you should not take pain medication because god makes you feel better. WTF, OK, so I suffer for something that may not even be there. (No offense, of course, to the religious folk. I DO believe in god. *Agnostic*)