“The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den.” BookOur LivesProduceAddictionLibraryShopsFierceHeroinJunkieCounterpartsOpiumDensNicotine Author:Phillip Adams
“Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been an aphrodisiac for horror, a Benzedrine for bestiality. At its best it has lifted spirits and raised spires. At its worst it has turned entire civilizations into cemeteries.” PeopleHas BeensSpiritAtheismWorstCivilizationHorrorRaisedPositive AtheismCemeteryOpiumOpiatesAphrodisiacNumbingSpires Author:Phillip Adams
