The Playboy Forum

September, 1981

Speed and JesusThings were a lot simpler when religion was the opiate of people, as Marx put it, and merely lulled them into passive acceptance of economic and social injustice. These days, it seems to be less an opiate than an amphetamine. Compared with today's politicized evangelists and their fiery-eyed followers armed with Bibles and ballots, the standard speed freak is a pretty laid-back fellow. To the detached student-observer of political change, the sight is the most breathtaking spectac...