"Chateaubriand, a strongly religious man, in awe, as we have seen, to royal legitimacy, has of the use of religion the same opinion as Marx. It is the opium of the people"
I am wondering whether religion is rather the opium of the rich. The lower classes know full well that they are oppressed by the rich (hence the rich guys are the bad …
"Chateaubriand, a strongly religious man, in awe, as we have seen, to royal legitimacy, has of the use of religion the same opinion as Marx. It is the opium of the people"
I am wondering whether religion is rather the opium of the rich. The lower classes know full well that they are oppressed by the rich (hence the rich guys are the bad guys), but the rich need an ideology that explains to them why they are the good guys anyway.
As in our example. Religion was not opium for Marx, but religion was opium for Chateaubriand.
"Chateaubriand, a strongly religious man, in awe, as we have seen, to royal legitimacy, has of the use of religion the same opinion as Marx. It is the opium of the people"
I am wondering whether religion is rather the opium of the rich. The lower classes know full well that they are oppressed by the rich (hence the rich guys are the bad guys), but the rich need an ideology that explains to them why they are the good guys anyway.
As in our example. Religion was not opium for Marx, but religion was opium for Chateaubriand.