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The criticism of religion is the beginning of all criticism
-Karl Marx
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The Criticism Of Religion Is The Beginning

Karl Marx
The criticism of religion is the beginning of all criticism
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I don't have a very high opinion, actually, of the world of criticism - or the practice of criticism. i think i admire art criticism, criticism of painting and sculpture, far more than i do that of say films and books, literary or film criticism. but i don't much like the practice. i think there are an awful lot of bad people in it.
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When...did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? when did reason get redescribed as unreason? when were the fairy stories of the superstitious placed above criticism, beyond satire? a religion was not a race. it was an idea, and ideas stood (or fell) because they were strong enough (or too weak) to withstand criticism, not because they were shielded from it. strong ideas welcomed dissent.
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The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. to call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. the criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.
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When i first prepared this particular talk... i realized that my usual approach is usually critical. that is, a lot of the things that i do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn't been done. and i realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web. because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. it's kind of a gresham's law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation. bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. you just can't criticize anything.
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When i mention religion i mean the christian religion; and not only the christian religion, but the protestant religion; and not only the protestant religion, but the church of england.
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