# God must be a sadist **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [December 25, 2012, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-must-be-a-sadist/645080 "2012-12-25T01:04:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 190
**Author:** ![pchaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/258eb7/32.png) [@pchaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pchaos)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-must-be-a-sadist/645080/190 "2013-01-15T21:41:46Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > I love the assumption that atheists, in general, are just itching to have a confrontation with theists, no matter how inappropriate the situation. You guys may not believe it, but I use to be a lefty. For those not familiar with the term it refers to the radical left in the U.S., my hair went down to my shoulders. And then my parents died back to back within a short span of time. I basically believed what the lefties believed back at CAL. All that Marxist garbage about, “religion being the opiate of the masses.” They didn’t mention that Marx never said that. 30 years later I turned around 180 degrees. Give me some of that opiate. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-must-be-a-sadist/645080)._