1. Religion is the opium of the people.
2. Religion justifies an unequal social order.
3. The problem of an afterlife gives people something to look forward to after death.
4. Religion makes a virtue out of suffering.
5. Religion offers the false hope of supernatural intervention to improve current conditions.
6. Religion is a form of social control.
7. The bourgeoisie and religious authorities also support other more overtly brutal methods of control.
8. The bourgeoisie fund the religious institutions.
9. The religious institutions are class-collaborationist and legitimize bourgeois power through ideas like "prosperity gospel."
10. Religion is not necessary under socialism or communism.
11. Religion has no purpose if there is no longer clas society since its purpose is to justify an unequal social order and to provide the exploited with a coping method with their misery.
12. With communism and decent working conditions controlled by the workers religion will wither away.
13. Religion creates false consciousness.
14. Religion mystifies material phenomena.
15. Religion teaches that human misery is a result of divine will.
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