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/^t/Most importantly, taking opium as any kind of addictive drug makes you utterly dependent on it. That is the obvious and inevitable side effect. You cannot at will make yourself stop taking it. On the contrary, your organism demands more and more. According to this purely biological process the masses used to be utterly addicted to religion as it had unlimited control and exerted extreme influence over them. At some point people became too weak to resist it.