"The profane existence of error is discredited after its heavenly oratio pro aris et focis has been disproved. Man, who looked for a superhuman being in the fantastic reality of heaven and found nothing there but the reflection of himself, will no longer be disposed to find but the semblance of himself, only an inhuman being, where he seeks and must seek his true reality.
The basis of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet found himself or has already lost himself again......To abolish religion as the illusory happiness of the people is to demand their real happiness. The demand to give up illusions about the existing state of affairs is the demand to give up a state of affairs which needs illusions.....
Criticism has torn up the imaginary flowers from the chain not so that man shall wear the unadorned, bleak chain but so that he will shake off the chain and pluck the living flower. The criticism of religion disillusions man to make him think and act and shape his reality like a man who has been disillusioned and has come to reason, so that he will revolve round himself and therefore round his true sun. Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself....."
Karl Marx, January 1844
Abstract from The Introduction to Contribution To The Critique Of Hegel's Philosophy Of Right
Fighters of the cause,
Religion is one of the many shackles that holds man down from his true potential. Religion only fills a void that man believes religion can fill. This leaves man hungry and unfulfilled. Like Marx wrote " Man makes religion, religion does not make man." It was mans imagination that created religion, trying to satisfy the needs the world was not meeting. Once the world achieves Communism though, man will realize he does not need a "God" to give him meaning. When the control religion has over man is relinquished, he will go farther than the religious chain he once was attached to allowed. So abandon the leech that is religion, feeding off of your potential, and be all that you can be! Liberate Your Mind! Say No To Religion!
In Solidarity,
-BlakSheep-
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