Opium
Religion is the opiate of the masses.
We so often misquote this phrase and spin it into something it is not.
Here is the real thing.
"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."
Marx was not calling for a casting off of religion, though he was anti-Semitic and anti-Christian. This is not a bitter phrasing. He was passing on to his followers the key to world domination. Religion, to Marx, was the key to success. A secular religion where the opressed pray to a god of government, a government of the people.
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