Response to Karl Marx article

Karl Marx was a man who sparked fury and anger in his time period, and still continues to aggravate our present world. In 1844, there was no questioning the ways of the church. If you disagreed or didn't believe, you were immediately seen as unstable and immoral. These condemned individuals, of which Karl Marx was associated with, were the cause of trouble and doubts that seemingly became instilled in some religious people's thoughts, and this made everyone, even the religious people with doubts, "bad". Karl Marx's main argument however, truly does trigger worry in some people's hearts who are religious. He spoke of things that in his time, nobody thought of, and once they were spoken, "doubt" entered the world. For his time period, Karl Marx was a genuinely intelligent man and he does raise important points that shouldn't be ignored by the church and by all the people who practice a religion. Karl Marx may not have been completely opposed to the main idea of a religion, rather, he may have thought that it would make someone even stronger if they could detect the flaws and the wonders of their religion and existence.
"Man, who has found only the reflection of himself in the fantastic reality of heaven, where he sought a superman, will no longer feel disposed to find the mere appearance of himself, the non-man, where he seeks and must seek his true reality". In this statement, Karl Marx is expressing his belief of the importance in finding one's inner self. Marx believes that people involved deeply in religion, fail to recognize their true self because they are too consumed in their idea of what the Church says to be the truth, and how the Church tells them to act. Karl Marx believes that religion blinds a person's vision and perception of the world and alters his or her reality. It is true that Marx's ideas are important during the time they were written because he lived in a period where the people were inevitably being oppressed and controlled in unfair and manipulative ways by the Holy Church, and the basic government and society.
Nowadays, people can freely disagree and oppose certain religious practices and beliefs, and that is something that Karl Marx dreamed of. "The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against the world whose spiritual aroma is religion". In Marx's time period, this statement was undeniably true. During his time, it was impossible for anyone with his own personal beliefs to live comfortably. He was deemed an "evil dissenter", and one who none should associate with. It is not fair that Marx couldn't express his ideas freely, and that he was oppressed by the entire society that he lived in. It is prominently better now that people of our present time don't feel that they must conform to society's and government's ways.
Although Karl Marx does speak powerfully and sometimes too critically about religion, he is only trying to create a world where it is okay for people to disagree with the way things are being run in either their country or society. "Religion is the opiate of the people". Marx's words are harsh, but they do maintain some truth. Religion during Marx's time period was used more as a weapon and a controlling device by higher officials and authority, and wasn't really the true choice of the people. Marx's intention was to upstart a movement where people could control their own ideas and actions, and not those assigned to them by their "religion".