In Karl Marx’s native home of Germany, he observed many inequalities around him including widespread suffering and misery in the working class. He states that religion was widely used as an anesthetic to help people cope with their suffering. According to Marx, religion is a reflection of man, because religion is one of man’s constructions. So man uses religion as an illusion to shield himself from his own own sufferings. Marx claims that that the happiness gained from religion is an illusion, and through the criticism of religion it will reveal man’s true happiness. Since these oppressed peoples cannot be free on earth, they use religion as a way to separate themselves from this world in which they experience so much pain. This is why Marx
