Marx’s analysis of religion can be broken into four parts.
First, human beings create God in their own image (Feuerbach’s
thesis). Second, we do this to find solace from our
miseries on earth. Third, the cause of our misery is alienation
in our everyday lives. Fourth, only communist society can
overcome this alienation and thus transcend religion. Now,
one possible objection to all of this is that Marx is wrong and
traditional theology right: there is a God, who created us,
and ordered us to worship him. It is a constant source of
wonderment to me that intelligent,