Category — Karl Marx

When judging Barack Obama’s Marxist comments in reference to religion being the opium of the people, it’s often useful to consider what other sources have to say on the subject. George Washington’s Farewell Address takes a much different stand:

Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and Citizens. The mere Politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked, Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Washington’s words don’t need much embellishment. You have a choice between Barack Obama and his raft of radical left-wing , America hating friends or the Father of Our Country. It’s not really that hard a decision, is it?