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/^t/Opium is a highly-addictive kind of drug, whose effect is sleepiness, indifference, detachment. The comparison of opium to religion seems to be quite justifiable when we look back on history and the part religion has played in it. When we think of the masses blindly following their religious leaders as if unable to reason themselves; complying with their orders, too stupefied and mentally blind to defy them.