Religion is the opiate of the masses

Your radical ideas about religion as a mechanism of social control have already occurred to others	An atheist's defense of Christianity	Stop saying "religion" when you mean "a particular religion about which I'm bitter"	Religion does not cure stupidity, nor does atheism cure it
If "cult" religions are so good at mind control, why are their attrition rates so high?	TV is the opiate of the masses	Your radical ideas about society, individualism, and religion have already occurred to others	Have you stopped beating your wife?
All religions are fallen	Quran and the Expanding Universe	Your God does not make me want to reconsider my thoughts about suicide	Why matter cannot reach the speed of light
Thomas Szasz	Karl Marx	"Ha ha," says the Israeli voter to the American voter, "don't talk to me about the lesser of two evils."	Opiate
Calvin and Hobbes	Sublimation	Song of Mary	Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
Opium of the people	Religion: N/A	Incarnation, a poem (or something) by polyseeme	Heroin and nazism

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