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Marx believed that religion was the opium of the people, meaning that it was imposed upon the common person to control him. He believed there was no such thing as a God or gods.
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."

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