The sages of the ages regarding the relevance of religion

Republished from December 22, 2017

"Religion is the opium of the people [the masses]." – Karl Marx (Critique of Hegelian Philosophy, 1844)

"Religia opium dia naroda." – Bolshevik slogan (1919, attributed to Lenin)

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