My other favorite quote, from Jordan Peterson is
“If religion is the opiate of the masses, then Marxism is the crack cocaine”
It always has been and always will be. Broad is the path that leads to destruction, and many there are that follow it.
Thankfully though, despite massive attempts to annihilate religion, true Christianity has stood the test of time because it has God as its protection. Try as they might, the irreligious can not stamp it out no matter how brutal they become towards God’s people.
It makes sense that the fattest, most passively entertained and comfortable people in all of history also have the least faith. It seems to simply be following human nature and history.
“By tuning in to diversionary pleasures, we are actually tuning out; we are all addicts of the momentary rush of dopamine that sundry amusement, from jogging to drug use, gives us.”
If I had to choose, I’d prefer more jogging culture and less screen culture. We are probably way closer to something like Brave New World than 1984, in my opinion.
Freegards
Scientism is becoming a religion. It will be the opiate of the masses. Already on this round of nonsense in the world, we had “officials” saying “Trust the science” and Fauci claiming he “represents science”. Fauci is the high priest of scientism.
the author says it is time to turn the screws on oth atheists and agnostics.
why on them alone, since the point of view is from a distinct christian one?
why not, since the author willed it, EVERY DADBLAMED AMERICAN WHO DOES NOT MEET THE AUTHOR’S MEASURE??
I’m sure this is something that has swelled and ebbed during my 69 years of being.
There is a bugaboo, and it started with The Thomas Jefferson, President.He cut out portions of The Book that did not fit his world-view, and it was not only accepted, but PUBLISHED, and still published, today. I’m sure you know that you can go to any bookstore website, and find it there, listed among the copies of the KJV,NIV, RSV, and even “the worst version printed” the Today’s English Version, (which was my first git-down-to-it version read!).
In reality, y”all won’t and can’t “turn the screws” on anybody, due to the high degree of fractures christians sects, and that agnostics are such by their own research, soul-searching, and definitive decision. Atheists are those who have either been burned, in some fashion by christianity, and have “thrown their bibles into the depths of the fiver Jordan”, and walked away.
As Jefferson said, it is their god that they must seek and reason with, not me or my god.