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k p ud Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real distress and the
protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world,
just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.
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The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The
demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up the conditions which needs
illusions (Karl Marx: Contribution to the Critique of Hegels Philosophy of Right).
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, On the question of God, the Godlike and everything connected with it, there is a
contradiction in your positionit is clearly reactionary and reactionary. Like the Christian socialists (the
worst variety of socialism, and its worst distortion, you make use of a method which despite your best

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intention) repeats the hocus-pocus of the priests: you eliminate from the idea of God everything about it
that is historical and drawn from real life (filth, prejudices, sacrificed ignorance and degradation, on the one
hand, serfdom,monarchy, on the other), and instead of the reality of history and life there is substituted in
the idea of God a gentle petty-bourgeois phrase(God= ideas which awaken and organize social feelings)
Lenin Coll Works, Vol 35, pp 127-28)
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e j e -: the fantastic refection in mans minds of those external forces
which control the daily life, a reflection in which the terrestrial forces assume the form of supernatutal
forces. In the beginning of history it was the forces of nature which were the first so reflected and which in
course of further evolution underwent the most manifold and varied personifications among the various
peoples But it is long before, side by side with the forces of nature, social forces begin to be active
forces which confront man as equally alien and at first inexplicable, dominating him with the same
apparent natural necessity as the forces of nature themselves.

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Question, Counnter-question
, : Marxists recognize that they must respect the individuals religious belief. We seek no
conflict between us and true devotees of all faiths. We respect the right to their beliefs .
What about Marxs aphorism that religion is the opium of the people? I have indicated that the aphorism
torn from its contect is interpreted one-sidedly.

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