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Perhaps there is no word of Karl Marx better known or more quoted than his joke that faith is the opium of the masses. So let me quote the passage in its entirety.
“Religious misery is the expression of genuine misery and a protest opposed to that misery. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the center of a centerless world, the spirit of a spiritless condition. It is the opium of the masses. The abolition of faith as the illusory happiness of others is the condition of their genuine happiness. The demand to abandon this phantasm is the demand that men abandon a condition that desires phantasms. “Marx, Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right.
The meaning is undeniable to comprehend. In no undeniable terms, he says that faith misleads other people into believing that if they suffer the misery and suffering of which the flesh is heir in this world, they will reap wonderful benefits in the next. The state feeds other people this concoction to keep them in the complacency of the heirs while the powers that be exploit them. That’s the first point. The present point, that the masses will have to reject these illusions and rise up to replace the world, is then undeniable.
Let’s explore the harm caused by society’s uncritical acceptance of devout concoctions. I’m not engaging in an exploration of devout philosophy; Just take a look at what faith does in practical politics. Let me give you some examples of how faith carries greater weight than other points such as ethnicity or nationality in genuine life.
Islamization, for example, had a harsh and irreversible effect on Iran (Persia), but Arabization has failed miserably!Iran is staunchly Islamic, but the country has proudly retained its Persian cultural and linguistic roots. The stanzas at the beginning and the ends of this essay illustrate this. Even the many indigenous peoples and tribes of Persia retained their independent culture and way of life, but capitulated to Islam. When the armies of Islam swept through Arabia and the Middle East and crushed each other, the distinct sign of identity stood in their way.
In Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea, Bali, and the Malay Archipelago, nationalism, language, culture, and other loyalties count for little, unlike the control of Islam that prevails over all other loyalties and extremisms. Like opium, it enforces a lifelong drug addict. It comes as no surprise to anyone that devout expectations about what will happen in the afterlife keep other people more enslaved than ethnic identity, nationalism, group loyalty, or anything else.
Authorities in the Russian republic of Chechnya have banned music deemed too fast or too slow, criminalizing many genres. The Ministry of Culture announced the ban with the agreement of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. “Musical, vocal and choreographic” works will be limited to a rhythm of 80 to 116 bars per minute to “adapt to the Chechen mentality and sense of rhythm,” the culture minister said. “It is unacceptable to borrow the musical culture of other peoples. We will have to take long-term care of our children, the cultural heritage culture of the people, and all ethical and ethical standards. This intolerance has deep Islamic roots.
The strong hold of religion over the minds of Americans cannot be minimized. An Arizona court has imposed a blanket ban on abortion, referring to the Christian belief that life is created at the moment of conception and that it is a sin to abort when the mother is pregnant. Life is in danger. The law ratifies a fundamentalist decree of 1864. Going further back, the Spanish conquistadors annihilated millions of Aztecs, Mayans, and other peoples across the continent because they did not bow down to the True God. The Bamiyan Buddha statues, two monumental sixth-century Buddhist statues in Afghanistan, were razed to the ground by Islamic fundamentalists. Hindu fundamentalists destroyed the Babri Majid mosque in Ayodhya, which was supposedly built on the birthplace of Rama, a village thug exiled in his father to fulfill the promise made to his wife to crown his son Bharat. Need I say more to show that faith has irrationally taken over the human mind?
This is not to deny that strength is the other fundamental element that shapes history. The examples I’ve looked at show that faith works hand-in-hand with armed force to drive history forward. The example of the Spanish conquistadors who used force to exterminate ungodly pagans is one example. Clever example. The early Christians destroyed all previous monuments of “pagan” origin, such as the tomb of Alexander the Great in Alexandria. Wasn’t it Rudyard Kipling who said in his poem Mandalay “The great Lord Budd, a flowery idol made of clay”?The savagery in Sudan and the Darfur region, the senseless violence that is spreading across the “bulk” of the East African continent and dozens of examples around the world demonstrate that strength, hand in hand with faith, is the midwife of history; Niger, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, etc.
What about ungodly China and, to some extent, atheistic Russia (15% to 25% of Russians are non-believers or simple atheists)?In Soviet times, this figure was much higher. I suspect that in Russia, as in the global world and in the West, the number of de facto atheists is quite large. (Personally, like Marx, I’m more of a secularist than an atheist. Who the hell knows? Come on, man, it doesn’t matter much in practical things. )
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