Is Religion the Opiate of the Masses?, page 1

A number of the famous have swung along with this little ditty. I see where they are coming from but it think its sentiment is utter rubbish.

Religion is a completely separate entity to spirituality and left that 'field' when leaders realised what a useful tool they had through manipulating those who believed in it. Prime example Christ says "Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's" like hell he did; regardless whether he was the actual Jewish King or a normal Jew. No occupied people took the "Oh let him have his taxes." and smiled. However, if the populace thought Christ had condoned paying Rome its taxes, of course it would be much easier to collect them. No opiate there, just crafty diplomacy and the use of the velvet glove by Constantine.

From my experience of religion and religious people, we have the 'elders' within a church, those who run all the charity stuff, the church etc. They also form the judgement mob when someone elects to walk off or decides a bit of swopping around would be nice. Again the only thing happening is not supernatural, just humanity often at its most hypocritical.

I think we lost the real experience of spirituality a long, long time ago with the bible itself. The Shamanic travelling and transcendence was pushed right away from the masses. In a way we took ourselves out of the equation and substitutde an artificial entity to whom we enslaved ourselves.

I suspect our current drug laws, apart from the pharma profits have something to do with the experience certain drugs produce, which leads some to spiritual frontiers today's religions can't attain, or have forgotten or worse, chose not to share. I would say that a very concerted effort has been carried out to detatch mankind away from the spiritual and to cement his feet firmly in the mundane, physical world and all that entails.

Whenever one sees people attempting to get in touch again with the ancient belief of man being at one with the planet, all life on it as well as a wide spiritually based relationship linked to both the planet and the cosmos, the MSM immediately uses its little poisonous darts of mockery. We, en masse, did our part in the past and laughed mockingly also. However today, more and more have become disgusted with the superficial values of today's world and are attempting to detatch and rediscover the real opiate of life which does not come from those who run religion or the world today.