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Former Green Bay Packers Quarterback Aaron Rodgers Suggests Religion Is Used To Manipulate People (wisportsheroics.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Five@slrpnk.net to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Is this 1/2 of his broken clock? *

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Mos Definitely

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.social 2 points 5 months ago

I'll stay on edge for him to drop some more wisdom.

[–] Maeve@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago

He's not wrong about that.

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Religion is the opium for the masses. Nothing new here, really.

[–] Zorque@kbin.social 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

*opiate

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What’s the difference? Serious question.

[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Opiates include artificially lab-constructed products that are based off of the opium that comes from poppies.

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So, opium was fine?

[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. Pretty much. The original quote by Marx would’ve been in German I assume - which might make a difference. Looking at the US’s painkiller problems “opiate” is possibly more relevant. It’s a negligible difference either way. (Unless a linguist knows better)

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I suspect back then, when original quote was created, most, if not all, opium accessible to the public was natural and not a synthetic opiate. To translate it to opiate is likely incorrect then. That's why I was a bit confused by correction "opiate".

[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Historically speaking I imagine that’s true. I’m not sure why anyone felt the need to “correct” the word in the first place. Especially if it transpires they did so incorrectly…

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