Religion Is Poison ????!!! Mao ?

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Did Mao realy say "Religion is Poision" in a speech or something, or is all that a Holywood trick ?
How is the exact speech if it existed ?
does anyone, if it exists, it in wav to hear ?

 

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Originally posted by Mikael XII
Did Mao realy say "Religion is Poision" in a speech or something, or is all that a Holywood trick ?
How is the exact speech if it existed ?
does anyone, if it exists, it in wav to hear ?

I know nothing for certain, but if he said it... try looking in "the little red book". I think he said some other catchy statements in it such as, "religion is opium for the masses"

 

[Dark Knight]

"Religion is the opiate of the people" was said by Marx. But the "Little Red Book" was a collection of many of Mao's pithy sayings, so if he did ever say "religion is poison", it would probably be included in there.

 

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Originally posted by Dark Knight
"Religion is the opiate of the people" was said by Marx. But the "Little Red Book" was a collection of many of Mao's pithy sayings, so if he did ever say "religion is poison", it would probably be included in there.

really? I could have swore I had heard otherwise.... I suppose that does make sense. Jeez... I'm all backwards today.

 

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I wanna read Colonel Khadaffi's (what IS the official spelling on his name? I must have read about 26 or something) Little Green Book. apparently it's a laugh riot!

 

[Duque de Bragança]

Originally posted by Top Cat
I wanna read Colonel Khadaffi's (what IS the official spelling on his name? I must have read about 26 or something) Little Green Book. apparently it's a laugh riot!

Examples, please ! I read somewhere he said it was an Arab who discovered America the Emir Ka (America in arabic). Is it true ? Then there's the anti-colonialist/imperialist rhetorics etc.

 

[PatMaster]

Originally posted by Top Cat
I wanna read Colonel Khadaffi's (what IS the official spelling on his name? I must have read about 26 or something) Little Green Book. apparently it's a laugh riot!

Actually, my father is a shipping agent, and one of his customers is the Libyan embassy in Sweden. They give him pictures of Khadaffi and stuff like that to have on the office!

 

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I'll guess I'll open up the proverbial can o' worms. Does anyone here think that "religion is poison?"

 

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yes and no.

On the Opium question:

Marx said: "Religion ist das Opium des Volkes"

Religion is opium of the people.

then SOMEONE, I think it was Lenin, said, religion is the opium for the people.

note the difference.

Anyway, Gott ist tot. (God is dead). Nietzsche, I believe.

 

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You see i have a Historical Speeches and Music archive, i collect it.
Have a lot Churchill, Mao, Stalin, Chrusthev, King George V etc etc all in wav.
But i do not have this "Religion is Poison" and such.
So if anyone have it, OR any ohter interesting thing i would be happy to get it.

 

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Originally posted by SoleSurvivor
On the Opium question:

Marx said: "Religion ist das Opium des Volkes"

Religion is opium of the people.

then SOMEONE, I think it was Lenin, said, religion is the opium for the people.

note the difference.

Yes, I am pretty sure that it was Lenin who said that "religion is opium for the people". Maybe he just misinterpreted Marx a bit.

 

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Originally posted by VingTor

Yes, I am pretty sure that it was Lenin who said that "religion is opium for the people". Maybe he just misinterpreted Marx a bit.

MARX DID, absolutely!
Plain true, isn't it? The only Marx idea I am to support...

 

[Raghnall]

"religion is the opium for the people"

that is really an empty saying because you could put any number of words in there and it would make sense. And being that Marx lived in Germany if I am not mistaken, that saying would kind of be outdated for his time period I would think.

 

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How about panem et circenses?

 

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"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.

Is this making it any clearer.In response to Rhagnall , you can say the same about any qoute , that it is empty.Marx did live in Germany , and a few other places too , I don't see why that would make his comment anachronistic.

To the best of my knowledge Vladimir ILyich did not say this originally , unless he was paraphrasing Marx.

 

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I have absolutley no idea what Mao may have said, though.

 

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Religion Quotes I have collected from websites over the months...

"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
"The United States is in no way founded upon the Christian religion." - George Washington
"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it." - John Adams
"The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma." - Abraham Lincoln
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"A man without religion is like a fish without a bicycle." - Vique
"I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose." - Clarence Darrow
"I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world." - Charles Dickens
"Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day." - Ernest Hemingway
"Faith: not wanting to know what is true." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"The last Christian died on a cross." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis." - Sigmund Freud
"The world holds two classes of men: intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence." - Abu'l-Ala-Al-Ma'arri
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." - Mahatma Gandhi
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians; Your Christians are so unlike your Christ" - Mahatma Gandhi
"Religion is a fraud, but it must be maintained for the masses." - Frederick The Great
"All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few." - Stendhal

 

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It's a way to control the masses and a convenient excuse to start a war.

 

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You could say the same about tv.

 

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And your point is?