 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...  The Plain Truth about God 101 - Page 172by Allan W. Janssen - 2006 - 192 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas G. Harding, Ben J. Wallace - History - 1970 - 516 pages
...Thus for Marx (1964:135), "The religious world is but the reflex of the real world", and (1964:42) "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the...of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people." For Durkheim (1954:418), the "reality, which... | |
 | Karl Marx - Political Science - 1970 - 234 pages
...aroma. The wretchedness of religion is at once an expression of and a protest against real wretchedness. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the... | |
 | Richard Bernstein - Philosophy - 1971 - 368 pages
...suffering is the expression of real suffering and at the same time the protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, as it is the spirit of spiritless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion... | |
 | Owen Chadwick - History - 1990 - 298 pages
...Deutsch-franzdsische Jahrbiicher which he and his little group at Paris were able to publish. The context ran: 'Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, the soul of a soulless environment. It is the opium of the people* - not, as Lenin amended it, opium... | |
 | D.B. McKown - Philosophy - 1975 - 192 pages
...religion but refers rather to a function carried out, presumably, by all religions. What Marx said is, "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, as it is the spirit of spiritless conditions. It is the opium of the people."183 This functional description... | |
 | Seth Daniel Kunin - Religion - 2003 - 244 pages
...is at one and the same time the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of a soulless situation. It is the opium of the people. (2002 [1844]: 171) This quotation... | |
 | Joe Jenkins - Religion and ethics - 2003 - 298 pages
...over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble people. ' Karl Marx, letter to his father (1837) 'Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. ' Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's... | |
 | Eliezer Ben Rafael - Social Science - 2003 - 164 pages
...other (Touraine 1992). To recall Marx's famous statement about religion, his contention is that . . . [religion is] the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. Who would speak in these terms... | |
 | Barbara J. Falk - Political Science - 2003 - 520 pages
...relationship with the "earthly oligarchy." Marx advocated the abolition of religion because it was "the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, as it is the spirit of spiritless conditions ... the opium of the people." Michnik chose to favorably... | |
 | Dana Sawchuk, Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion - Political Science - 2004 - 289 pages
...190-92. 43 The passage reads: "Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real distress and the protest against real distress. Religion is the...of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people" (emphases in original): Karl Marx, "Contribution... | |
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