{"id":231,"date":"2002-10-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-28T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/27\/religion-is-the-opiate-of-the-masses\/"},"modified":"2005-08-15T16:23:06","modified_gmt":"2005-08-15T23:23:06","slug":"religion-is-the-opiate-of-the-masses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2002\/10\/28\/religion-is-the-opiate-of-the-masses\/","title":{"rendered":"Religion is the Opiate of the Masses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[written 10-28-02]<\/p>\n<p> [Unfinished rant]<\/p>\n<p>Look at what the most intensely religious people read. Left Behind, Dianetics, and The Celestine Prophecy are all huge best-sellers.<\/p>\n<p>It took the Vatican 359 years to apologize to Galileo. Here&#8217;s a funny Catholic apologist.<\/p>\n<p>The Moral Majority is neither.<\/p>\n<p>Most shamanistic religions use heavy breath control to induce religious stupors in it&#8217;s devotees. Most of the others use mental &#8220;breath control&#8221; to similar ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[written 10-28-02] [Unfinished rant] Look at what the most intensely religious people read. Left Behind, Dianetics, and The Celestine Prophecy are all huge best-sellers. It took the Vatican 359 years to apologize to Galileo. Here&#8217;s a funny Catholic apologist. The Moral Majority is neither. Most shamanistic religions use heavy breath control to induce religious stupors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}