Thursday, January 25, 2018

Irreligion is the Opium of the People

It is only by believing in God that we can criticize the Government.  Once abolish God, and the Government becomes God.  The truth is that irreligion is the opium of the people.  Wherever the people do not believe in something beyond the world, they will worship the world.  But, above all, they worship the strongest thing in the world.

G. K. Chesterton, Christendom in Dublin. Cited by Os Guinness, Impossible People, pg.14

1 comment:

Jesse Albrecht said...

Hence, we have rightly termed "Secularism" to be a religion.