"The opium of the people".
Karl Marx and his followers called religion the "opium of the people." He concluded religion is used by the upper class to give false hope to the lower class.
- Britain traded Indian opium for Chinese tea - Chinese people became addicted to opium - China made it illegal ad asked British to stop trade - Britain said no - China loses opium war - Because Britain has modernized weapons
12 million people :))
Freedom of religion established in China, as well as other gains
Karl Marx
Karl Marx, the writer of the Communist Manifesto. He is credited with being the father of communism.
You mean "opium of the people". Opium is a narcotic. It make people less analytical.
"The opium of the people".
Karl Marx
he meant that people dont want to face the fact that life is inherently meaningless, so they invented religion and "god" as a crutch to lean on so they dont have to deal with it.
Apparently he considered religion to be something harmful.
One famous quote was: Religion is the opium of the people.
marx was a close friend of the german poet heinrich heine, in one of his poems heine likens religion to opium in a glass.
Some things Marx said about religion: On religion's lack of rationality: Religion is ". . .a complete negation of all reasoning." It ". . .explains nothing." On religion's use as a tool to keep the people in place: Priests ". . . calculate on the cowardice of the congregation." "It is the opium of the people." On religion's hypocrisy: ". . . the English Established Church, for example, will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of 39 of its articles than on 1/39 of its income."
As opium is drug which leaves the mind in a state of false images or false realities. So do some religions confuse those who partake in its doctrine. There are confused as to what is truth. Confusion is not of God for His house is a house of order. religion become opium to the people because they have different views of what they believe and knows .
Karl Marx once stated that "religion is the opium of the masses."