Millions of Muslims Observe the Hajj in Mecca

Riyadh, Sep 1, 2017, http://www.plenglish.com/index...ve-the-hajj-in-mecca

Can anyone see our Chief in the crowd there?

Karl Marx

Religion is the opiate of the masses

If each person at the Haj contributed one Arabian dollar to change the living conditions of Paki Pits of Dubai South Asian residents then in my.opinion God would be very pleased.

RiffRaff posted:

Karl Marx

Religion is the opiate of the masses

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The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man – state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d’honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.

Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.

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Thanks you DG

RiffRaff posted:

Karl Marx

Religion is the opiate of the masses

Looks like Riff don't want to live the Jewish experience anymore.

Demerara_Guy posted:

RiffRaff posted:

Karl Marx

Religion is the opiate of the masses

The full text is ...

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The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man – state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d’honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.

Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.

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LONG LIVE COMRADE DEMERARA_GUY.

Prashad posted:

RiffRaff posted:

Karl Marx

Religion is the opiate of the masses

Looks like Riff don't want to live the Jewish experience anymore.

Whenever I see very large religious gatherings...I always think of sheep