by Moises Erives

Created on: December 17, 2009   Last Updated: December 19, 2009

Science: The New Opiate of the Masses

Religion is the opiate of the masses. Those words were once said by Karl Marx, the father of socialism. No Karl did not believe in God. When he saw the Catholic Church he saw corruption. So Instead he had a vision for an egalitarian utopia which later became known as communism.

But even if you don’t believe that Jesus was the Son of God, you can not deny the power of his word. Christianity has grown into the largest group of believers in the world. Millions have changed their lives, and accomplished great things in the name of the Lord. The greatest country in the history of the world was founded on Christian principles. All of the founding fathers of this great nation read from the Bible when they went to school as children. It’s no wonder they turned out so great.

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But the church did grow large, powerful, wealthy and influential. And temptation was too great for some. Some fell to temptation when they were in high posts in the church, and some already corrupted, actively and stealthily infiltrated the church. Some may even have thought that they were acting for the greater good, and thought that temporarily ignoring the Golden Rule and other teachings of Jesus was necessary and just. But in the end corruption did indeed find it’s way into the Church.

And Karl Marx was not the only one to have lost faith in the Church. The whole enlightenment movement had started maybe a couple hundred years before he was born. The Church was no longer the source for truth for some, but reason and science. And just as Jesus was marginalized and tortured for speaking the truth, so were these new prophets of science. Like Galileo was.

Millions of people were dependent on the Church for answers. The Church had the power, but along came this little thing called science. Sure it is a slow and tedious process, and there’s always a chance of human error. But it proved reliable, and became well trusted.

And science grew and became large, powerful, wealthy, and influential. Yes the masses have found their new source for the truth. The Church gave hope, salvation, and a understanding of the spiritual world. But science gave technology, medicine, and a understanding of the physical world. The Church had the Golden Rule and the Bible, but science has the Scientific Method and the Book of Nature. The bishops and cardinals have their priestly

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