RELIGION

Quote of the Day - August 31, 2010


"Religion is not an opiate, for religion does not help people to forget, but to remember. It does not dull people. It does not say, Take, but Give."


Bede Jarrett, O.P., [1881-1934], The Catholic Mother, 1956


Perhaps written to respond to Karl Marx [1818-1883] who wrote, "Religion ... is the opium of the people." in Critique of the Hegelian Philosophy of the Right [1844], introduction.


Miguel de Unamuno [1864-1936] wrote, "One of those leaders of what they call the social revolution has said that religion is the opiate of the people. Opium ... opium ... opium, yes. Let us give them opium so that they can sleep and dream." San Manuel Bueno, prologue.