Sometimes I wonder if these anti-religious types listen to their own sermons.
Here: religion is human. Isn't that what you've been saying? Then how can you isolate it, cleave it from the human condition? To denounce it as 'bullshit' or to suggest, even subtly, that it is culpable for any proportion of human sin and none of its glory requires the belief that it was handed down from powers on high rather than a social fact created and fostered by our own humanity. Such a belief demands such a leap of faith that would make a Southern Baptist shiver in rapture. Perhaps humanity would benefit if religion were eradicated--a prepostrous thought--but this will only happen if we can cure its genesis. What Marx was really saying when he wrote 'religion is the opiate of the people' is this: Physician, heal thyself!
