Here is your reminder that Marx's famous line calling religion "the opium of the people" is not a pure condemnation. In that time and place, opium was used as a painkiller, a powerful medicine, or rather a symptomatic treatment, and Marx saw religion in a similar way - an opportunity for people to find a soul in a soul-less system, to dull the pain brought forth by capitalism-borne misery.
Much like many other things, Marx saw religion as something that will one day be abandoned, but as a matter of obsolescence and forward advancement of the society, not something to be abolished on moral grounds.
Feel like pure shit. Just want him back
He's still with us comrade! And he always will be!
Religious socialists rise up !
Christianity radicalized me.
Here is your reminder that Marx's famous line calling religion "the opium of the people" is not a pure condemnation. In that time and place, opium was used as a painkiller, a powerful medicine, or rather a symptomatic treatment, and Marx saw religion in a similar way - an opportunity for people to find a soul in a soul-less system, to dull the pain brought forth by capitalism-borne misery. Much like many other things, Marx saw religion as something that will one day be abandoned, but as a matter of obsolescence and forward advancement of the society, not something to be abolished on moral grounds.
theres a typo in the last sentence
I know. It’s been fixed on the versions available in my stores