Shii Posted:

While I see where they come from with the normal opiate of the mbumes view, in that there’s true morality and meaning for suffering, there’s somewhere waiting for you when you die, being good has a lasting reward, etc., I believe more that calling religion ‘a drug’ is another way of validating themselves in a world that they acknowledge has no actual meaning.

True morality and true meaning are unnecessary if the illusion of the former are there. I believe reality is in the mind of the beholder, and if that mind believes it has a full understanding of the world, it will be content. The more knowledge you acquire, the more you realize there is more you do not know.