AHIV111 - slides for the lecture: "Religion is the opiate of the masses". In this theme we covered the idea that Religion can be ideological in nature.

4. Karl Marx

5. Karl Marx

6. I D E O L O G Y A belief or collection of beliefs that disempowers the believer while reconciling the believer with his/her Disempowerment.

7. I D E O L O G Y A belief or collection of beliefs that disempowers the believer while making the believer satisfied with his/her disempowerment.

8. I D E O L O G Y “Religion is the opiate of the masses.”

9. Opium = Drug Opiate = What the Opium is doing.

10. Opium = Drug What do drugs do?

13. God will save me if I am faithful and trust him

14. (Matthew 5:3 NIV) 3"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 19:24Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.“of heaven.

15. Proverbs 28:6Better a poor man whose walk is blameless than a rich man whose ways are perverse. Matthew 26:11The poor you willalways have with you, but you will not always have me.