What is Karl Marx's views on religion?

Answer 1

he called it the opium of the people, he didnt like religion as he thought it kept the ruling class in power

Answer 2

Marx was not out to get rid of God or religion he was out to free man. He felt if men were free religion would naturally die out. He wrote on more then one occasion that it was an immense waste of time being "anti-religious" or an Atheist. Marx purposely distanced himslef from Bauer and the young Hegelians who were attempting to get people to denounce religion.

Once the essence of man and of nature, man as a natural being and nature as a human reality, has become evident in practical life, in sense experience, the quest for an ALIEN being, a being above man and nature (a quest which is an avowal of the unreality of man and nature) becomes impossible in practice. Atheism, as a denial of this unreality, is no longer meaningful, for atheism is a negation of God and seeks to assert by this negation the existence of man. Socialism no longer requires such a roundabout method; it begins from the theoretical and practical sense perception of man and nature as essential beings. It is positive human self-consciousness, no longer a self-consciousness attained through the negation of religion.~Karl Marx Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts

Answer 3

Marxism, I believe, focused on the government regulating every and all aspects of life within the nation it governed. A lot like Communism but with more of a focus on the political leader (president, prime minister) then the whole of government.

Answer 4

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Answer 5

He wrote the Communist Manifesto. Evil person that used Evolution to promote his goals.

Answer 6

He famously said it is the opium of the people.

Answer 7

opiate of the masses

Answer 8

Ask him.

Answer 9

He's dead.