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I am laying in bed listening to the light early morning rain and thinking about religion. #itssunday. “Religion is the opiate of the masses” is an idea that makes sense to me. As this article says, it paraphrases Marx’s words. Governments love a docile and obedient population. The church inventing hell probably assisted there. My Sunday thoughts. [en.m.wikipedia.org]

Grahame 6 Nov 30
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I think the masses love religion because they are fundamentally scared of death. It creates eternal life by pretending your life actually gets better after death. Some people hate feeling responsible for their own lives and want others to make decisions for them. Others love ritual. It definitely is a very powerful opiate to some.

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My Sunday thoughts tomorrow morning will probably be.....will I bother going out to buy the Sunday papers because they’ll just be full of the latest election stunts Johnston and Corbyn et al have been getting up to, or not...not I think! I never think about religion and can’t imagine ever waking up on any morning and find myself doing so. Perhaps that is because I’m fortunate enough never to have had a religion. My Sundays have always been fun days, days different from the working week, but no need for the opiate of religion which like Marx I believe makes people more receptive to accepting control. Mind control on a massive scale is exactly what religious indoctrination is. In the U.K. church attendance has dwindled to such an extent that many churches have closed, and those still in business are either of the evangelical happy clappy type, or have amalgamated with other churches and are only having Sunday services on a rota basis, At least in the UK the churches have no influence on government policy,..despite the anachronism of having C of E bishops sitting in the House of Lords, something that needs to be reformed.

@Grahame I never said religion was the only form of mind control, but it is religion we are discussing here are we not? As far as the Queen is concerned ...she is the Head of State and head of The C of E, but that has no bearing on anything as we are a parliamentary democracy...Charles I lost his head when he disagreed with that,

@Grahame Can’t disagree with you on any of that,

@Grahame I’m of the mind that as soon as Mrs Queen moves on the monarchy is gone, just a symbolic relationship with the rest of the world. Charles for sure isn’t up to it and the whole institution is a global laughing stock with the Andrew business .

@Grahame Haha. At least we’ve mostly got the Westminster parliamentary system. It would be awful to have that electoral college nonsense they have in America.

@Grahame None more so than the big orange marshmallow himself!

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Awww, Sunday thoughts should be more along the lines of "Jesus died for my sins." and "How tall is God?" and shit like that.

Nope, it is Sunday here and my thoughts are quite simple, a) what will I get from the Fish and Chip Shop for lunch today, b) what will watch on a dvd while I'm eating my lunch, c) don't forget to strip the bed and change the bed linen.

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Marx’s thoughts on economic systems were equally prescient.

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