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DispatchReflection · politics· Dec 23, 2004 · 1 min read

Tolerance vs Religion

Just found this at kuro5hin ... The vague feeling I've always had that religion and tolerance don't go hand-in-hand just got translated into a statistic. When Marx…

Just found this at kuro5hin …

[The glass is half empty: Americans and Civil Rights for Muslims   kuro5hin.org](http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/12/20/234230/07)

The vague feeling I’ve always had that religion and tolerance don’t go hand-in-hand just got translated into a statistic. When Marx said religion is the opiate of the masses, I don’t think he was dissing God. I think he was pointing out that religion is an easy way for people to stop thinking, and creating a reality that is easy to deal with.

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