The basis of the criticism of religion is: is the man who makes a religion and not religion that makes man. In fact, religion is the self-consciousness and sense of self of the man who has not yet conquered or has already lost himself again. But man is not an abstract entity located outside of the world. The man is a man's world, the state, society. This state, this society produce religion, an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritualistic point of honor, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn completion, its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence possesses no true reality. The struggle against religion is therefore indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the soul of a heartless world, a world that is the spirit of a condition without spirit. It is the opium of the people. Eliminate religion as illusory happiness of the people means to require real happiness. The need to abandon the illusions about its condition is the need to abandon a condition which needs illusions. The criticism of religion approaches the theory that man is for man the supreme being. (Marx)
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