Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 17
INDIVIDUAL VERSUS SOCIETY unsuspecting common people chained to the so-called. Divine laws. Thus, in the name of God it is a fraudulent religious hierarchy which rules to its own advantage. This is the sociologist's perception of a religious society. Karl. Marx also seems to be in full agreement with this view of religion as an opiate concocted to keep the labouring multitudes forever doped, lest they should wake up to the awareness of their merciless exploitation by the bourgeoisie. The name of this potent opiate which keeps the proletariat drugged is the code of morality advocated by all religions. As such, morality is always linked to the idea of. God which commands and trims human behaviour in His name. 17