"Religion is Opium"

The study of history will justify the theory that religion is a form of insanity, immorality and murder. No sane and healthy minds could have waged the bloody religious wars and crusades where the conquered were slaughtered; men, women, and children, even infants, all were put to the sword simply because they were "infidels" or "heretics".

The dungeons and torture chambers of the Holy Inquisiotion could not have been run by sane or healthy minds. And it had to be the insane mind, the religious mind, that would tie a woman to a stake, pile wood and fagots around her and burn her alive for the impossible crime of being a witch, or to force her become a so-called "Sati".

No sane person could read of the horrors, rape and slaughter in a savage book and call that book "the word of God". Today, Religions choose to ignore, or to hide and deny, its own bloody history and to claim that they are the very foundation of our morals, and even of our civilization!!

I whole-heartedly support the view that the great Bengali poet Qazi Nazrul Islam had once put across, "Religion is Opium".