Karl Marx believed very strongly that religion was indeed a creation of humanity. A quote from Marx says "God did not create humanity: humanity creates its Gods". Karl Marx studied the teachings of a man called Feuerbach. Here is one of Feuerbach's quotes on religion, "Thought arises from being - being does not arise from thought." (Radical Academy, Marx, Engels) I feel that what Feuerbach is trying to say in this quote is that religious beliefs and biblical texts require human thoughts and that those human thoughts have created religions. In another writing about religion Karl Marx writes, " The struggle against religion is indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the feeling of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless circumstances. It is the opium of the people" I think what Karl Marx meant is this writing was that the conditions of the world create and sustains the beliefs that different religions hold with regard to the next world. Religion is the opium of the people, that is, it acts as a kind of painkiller. Religion makes bearable the unbearable, such as: poverty, hunger, inequality and repression that happen in the world.

The Christian religion means salvation to some and to others it is only something that only resides in the thoughts of the people of that society. A Marxist would tell you that true salvation could only be achieved here on earth by working. Salvation is something that all would hope would be in the future for themselves. In this paper we have examined two differing opinions on how salvation can be achieved one was through religion and the other was the socialist way of life. The argument between societies about religion will not be settled here on earth. Who is right and who is wrong in the argument about religion? Is religion just a figment of our imagination, is it something humans made up to make us feel good about the future and our salvation. Or are the Marxists wrong, could religion be everything it is meant to be in the Christian religion. Could religion be the real salvation? These are great questions to ponder and talk about.

In the western religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, God is the one and only Supreme Being, the Creator of everything. Nothing exists in the world to these religions unless God had created it. God is the omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, all good and eternal to salvation. God created the world and all its components for a purpose. God created human beings to know, to love, to honor, to serve and to obey Him. God is to be thought of in masculine terms, even though God is a pure spirit and has no material or bodily parts. Humans will be judged after death as to how well they have fulfilled God's p

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