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Daniel_Cheung
11-04-2009, 04:14 PM
Rwanda: Religion is Opium for Local People
http://allafrica.com/stories/200911021070.html

"One person who attempted to examine religion from an objective, scientific perspective was Karl Marx. Marx's analysis and critique of religion is perhaps one of the most famous and most quoted by theist and atheist alike. Unfortunately, most of those doing the quoting don't really understand exactly what Marx meant."-Historian M.M. Bober.

Religion can be used to make people feel better about the stress they experience due to poverty and exploitation. In Rwanda majority of the religious people are children, youth and women....