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Reply to a discussion post from another student. Below is the post.
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According to Karl Marx, religion has a dual role to play. Marx states religion performs two essential functions; it buttresses the established order by sanctifying it and by suggesting that the political order is somehow ordained by divine authority, and it consoles the oppressed and exploited by offering them in heaven what they are denied upon earth.
This distracts people from all worldly problem and fills them with false hopes and happiness.
This was the source for the main post. Hobbs, Laura: Youtube” Introduction to Religion” lecture 8: -Defining Religion, Tillich continued. Missouri State University Feb 11, 2013.
Religion is the human transformation response to perceived ultimacy (Hobbs).
