A bit of Marx

It's a particularly famous quote, but I thought I'd post a bit more of it than is typically mentioned.

“Religious misery is in one mouth the expression of real misery, and in another is a protestation against real misery. Religion is the moan of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, as it is the spirit of spiritless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion, as the illusory happiness of the people, is the demand for their real happiness. The demand to abandon the illusions about their condition is a demand to abandon a condition which requires illusions.” (Marx, A Criticism of the Hegelian Philosophy of Right)