“Religious suffering is, at one and the same time the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”
Karl Marx, Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher, 1844.
Karl Marx described religion as “the opium of the people”, since it offers the promise of escape to heavenly paradise following a life spent suffering on Earth. Despite the concerted efforts of all fundamentalist doctrines, modern western society has become largely secularised, with fewer people practicing religion than claiming to be atheist or agnostic.
The media creation, Celebrity Culture, which dictates that the people worship and then condemn whoever the owners and editors of the mainstream media choose, is a modern religion designed to distract us from what’s really important; the reawakening, emancipation and self-realisation of Mankind.
If Marx, who was allegedly a practising Freemason on the Rothschild payroll, for his passionate service to what Rakovsky called the Communist-Capitalist-International, had been born one hundred and fifty years later, he might well be arguing that in modern capitalist societies, Celebrity Culture has replaced organised religion as the oblivion-inducing drug of the masses.
Despite the bogus assertion that the mainstream media merely provides its audience with what it craves, like organised religion before it, Celebrity Culture has been imposed upon the people without their consent. Nevertheless, we always have the power to cease engaging in the consumption of it. If everybody did so, it seems reasonable to presume that it would cease to exist as a mechanism of control of the mass consciousness.
People are much less susceptible to religious indoctrination when they become less dependent on the state for so-called benefit privelidges. Similarly, when people permanently switch off their television sets, refuse to read tabloid rags and Gossip – with tits! mags, they become much less susceptible to the media programming which the last five generations have been subjected to.
None of us are truly free if we are not free to choose who we worship, or indeed, the who we don’t. Our religion, whatever that might entail, or atheism for that matter, should be the free choice of adulthood, rather than an imposition at birth by parents, extended family or government. But that choice should only be made once we have availed ourselves of certain facts that have been systematically hidden from view by those who financed revisionist history to facilitate their own private agendas. There is no substitute for conducting your own research.
