I don't know, this quote from your link seems pretty definitive in what Marx felt about religion:
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness.
It
is! But look at the
context of this sentence:
Written: December 1843-January 1844;
Karl Marx[9] (German: [maɐ̯ks]; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883)
The guy was 25 when he wrote
A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, which started with the sentence:
For Germany, the criticism of religion has been essentially completed, and the criticism of religion is the prerequisite of all criticism.
So he
begins this
introduction to a book that isn't about religion, but about
Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, by declaring that, in Germany, the job of criticizing religion has already been done - by Feuerbach, about whom Marx wrote his famous
Theses on Feuerbach, ending with the sentence:
Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.
He agreed with Feuerbach's critique of religion but basically said that where an atheist
stops, i.e. with the
critique of religion, that is the point is where a
communist, a revolutionary,
begins: by
changing the conditions that make people religious!
Feuerbach (...) does not see that the ‘religious sentiment’ is itself a social product, and that the abstract individual that he analyses belongs in reality to a particular social form.
We're done with the criticism of religion now, so let's
change, i.e.
overthrow, this society,
"that vale of tears of which religion is the halo," is what he says (in
'Introduction'). We have moved
beyond criticizing the poor suckers who believe in a god;
the criticism of Heaven turns into the criticism of Earth, the criticism of religion into the criticism of law, and the criticism of theology into the criticism of politics.
The criticism of religion ends with the teaching that man is the highest essence for man – hence, with the categoric imperative to overthrow all relations in which man is a debased, enslaved, abandoned, despicable essence, relations which cannot be better described than by the cry of a Frenchman when it was planned to introduce a tax on dogs: Poor dogs! They want to treat you as human beings!
(doesn't sound much like what the CCP is doing, does it?! We know
how they treat factory workers!)
What Marx is basically saying is that if you are
serious about wanting to abolish religion, you have to
transcend atheism. And if you take a look at some of our resident atheists on this forum, it's pretty obvious why! They are smug and complacent because they've made the marvelous discovery that God isn't real, and because they are so clever, they now spend their time inventing condescending names for God like 'Sky Daddy,' as if criticizing religion consisted in nothing more than pissing off Christians.
Unlike Marx, they seem to be stuck in this stage much like people who never manage to move beyond the stage of a tantrum-throwing toddler. They may
claim that they want to abolish religion, but they never actually get to the point where they
do something
real about it. Instead they
call on them [Christians] to give up their illusions
but what Marx points out is that
to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions.
Abolishing religion requires the abolition of the condition that makes people turn to religion, the miserable living conditions of most people.
Hard-core atheists are just pretend abolishioners of religion. Communists are the ones who actually do something about the conditions that make people turn to religion.
The CCP
may be
atheists, but they sure as hell ain't
commies!
Commies know that
conditions like these are bound to make people seek solace in delusions! And TBD's only concern is that (some of) the delusional are being persecuted - a weird way of declaring herself a victim by proxy! TBD doesn't seem to be concerned with the way the CCP treats its ordinary workers, but if it exhibits the audacity to destroy their
churches ...
