One person who attempted to examine religion from an objective, scientific perspective was Karl Marx. ... The most famous quote from the work of Karl Marx (and one of the most controversial statements in all of philosophy) is his frank assertion that religion "is the opium of the people" (141)*. ... This parallelism fit Marx's schema well. ... The approach embodied in these questions is the continuing legacy of Karl Marx. ... Marx insisted that these a...

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This is an important ethical issue to Americans and world citizens that involves questions of duty, consequences, and moral reconstruction and was highly recognized by many famous philosophers such as Immanuel Kant, John Dewey, Karl Marx, and Augustine. ... Karl Marx had yet another view on the issue of religion. ... In this, Marx finds a dangerous complacency, an escapism similar to the one provided by the narcotic of his (in) famous metaphor. ... How could these systems fulfill Marx's role of offering a better ultimate fate as a carrot to keep practitioners in line? Furthermore, Mar...

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Karl Marx, who is the author of The Communist Manifesto, once said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." Critics such as Marx have charged that religion is an invention designed for people incapable of coping with life's pressures. ... Karl Marx Bad Reputation Christianity has been giving itself a bad name in the media due to the disturbing criminal actions committed by some members of the church. ...

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Rejecting Karl Marx's evolutionary law of class society, or Emile Durkheim's sustained law of moral society, Weber established the understanding sociology of the subjective meaning of religious action or inaction. ... Or the goal is not even to formulate and evaluate the social function of religion as Marx did that religion was the opium of the mass or as Durkheim did that religion was what made moral society hold together. ... In order to understand sociological reality of religion, Weber holds the importance of religious idea which cannot be reduced to the component of material i...

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