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The relevant Marx quote

In Reply to: I was going easy on the RCC posted by MDG on January 14, 19100 at 11:09:55:

: : "Communism is more than Marxism, my friend, just as Catholciism is mroe than the Roman Curia....Both Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood by like an established society, and been silent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate."

: Graham Greene shoulda been the Pope.

SDF:

Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopedia, its logic in popular form, its spiritualistic point d'honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and the general ground for the consummation and justification of this world. It is the ghostly realization of the human essence, ghostly because the human essence possesses no true reality. The struggle against religion is therefore indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.

Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and the protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of spiritless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Karl Marx, from the "Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right"

Follow Ups:

• 'Relevant' is to Marx as 'Science' is to Gobbledygook. notext. Frenchy January 18 19100 (0)
• What GG had to say about THAT one Nikhil Jaikumar DSA MA, USA January 17 19100 (9)
  • A coalition between the Vatican and the Soviet Union, by way of Bulgaria. Frenchy January 18 19100 (3)
    • Isn't Frenchy supposed to be a Catholic? Farinata L'inferno January 18 19100 (0)
    • What in God's name are you talking about? Nikhil Jaikumar January 18 19100 (1)
      • Hint; Catholic = Universal (think 'ecumenism' here, as in Vat.II). Frenchy January 21 19100 (0)
  • On religion and political triumphalism (remix #2) Samuel Day Fassbinder Citizens for Mustard Greens USA January 18 19100 (2)
    • On' SDF's rear attacks of Stoller Stoller January 18 19100 (1)
      • On Stoller's quest for the perfect cult Samuel Day Fassbinder Citizens for Mustard Greens USA January 19 19100 (0)
  • On religion and political triumphalism (remix) Samuel Day Fassbinder Citizens for Mustard Greens USA January 18 19100 (0)
  • On religion and political triumphalism Samuel Day Fassbinder Citizens for Mustard Greens USA January 18 19100 (0)