Is it possible that the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. are suffering from the same spiritual disease? In the current issue of the year-old Roman Catholic monthly Integrity, Editor Ed Willock writes:
". . . When Marx declared that religion is the opium of the people, he did not mean . . . that the privileged classes were using religion as a drug to keep the underprivileged anesthetized. No, he meant that religion is a consolation for the injustices and burdens of life in a capitalistic world. . . . The bourgeois American subscribes to the same definition of religion as Marx. In...
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