Philosophical Graffiti

I picture the vandal to be in a hazed stupor, and with his last dying embers of energy, he scrawls across the wall this message. He doesn't entirely know what he's writing — so removed from reality he is — but he writes it. And through the fog, what he writes just happens to be true.

Opium is for the masses, so it does not make sense to say something else is opium when opium does a pretty damn job being opium. I think the majority of us have been touched in someway by what exactly drugs can do to a person. We've all been touched by the tribulations of addiction even if (like myself) some of us have not been addicts ourselves. Religion is, for the most part, an idea. Opium, however, is a material commodity.

As for religion, it can be dangerous — but so can any idea. If we are going to condemn religion as a "drug", we might as well condemn any idea someone believes in. The more militant among you will decry religion as a fairy tale, and you may be right. But shall we then condemn fairy tales as being "opiates"?

One may say that fairy tales have not imposed as much damage on the world as religion. I am sure if one believed in fairy tales with as much conviction as religion, there would be mayhem. This is true of any idea that is believed passionately.

So the vandal is right. Religion isn't an opiate. Opium sure is, though.

Via Pictures of Walls

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