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    Marxist theory views religion as serving to dull the pain of oppression by promising paradise after death, making suffering virtuous, offering hope of supernatural solutions, and justifying the social order. Religion also serves social control by creating false consciousness, justifying feudal systems of power and social hierarchies like the Hindu caste system. However, religion can also develop revolutionary potential when oppressed groups have no other outlet for grievances, as seen in some liberation theology movements in Latin America.

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    Marxist theory views religion as serving to dull the pain of oppression by promising paradise after death, making suffering virtuous, offering hope of supernatural solutions, and justifying the social order. Religion also serves social control by creating false consciousness, justifying feudal systems of power and social hierarchies like the Hindu caste system. However, religion can also develop revolutionary potential when oppressed groups have no other outlet for grievances, as seen in some liberation theology movements in Latin America.

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    Marxist theory views religion as serving to dull the pain of oppression by promising paradise after death, making suffering virtuous, offering hope of supernatural solutions, and justifying the social order. Religion also serves social control by creating false consciousness, justifying feudal systems of power and social hierarchies like the Hindu caste system. However, religion can also develop revolutionary potential when oppressed groups have no other outlet for grievances, as seen in some liberation theology movements in Latin America.

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    Marxist Perspective on

    Religion

    • Opium of the Poor People

    Four Ways Religion Dulls Pain of Oppression


    • Promise of paradise of eternal bliss

    • Makes a virtue of the sufferings produced by oppression


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    • Offers the hope of supernatural intervention to solve problems on earth

    • Justifies Social order and a person's position in it

    • Religion and Social Control

    • False Consciousness:

    • Feudal England: Manor's Power justified by Religious Platform


    • Egyptian Pharohs, Hinduism Caste system

    Religion and Communism

    Kibbutz , Usssr and Christianity , Castros Cuba


    Kibbutz , Usssr and Christianity , Castros Cuba
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    • Religion can be revolutionary. It can develop revolutionary potential


    where oppressed population has no outlet for their grievance.
    • E.g. In Latin America catholic priests criticism on ruling groups – also
    called Liberation Theology.

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