QUOTE OF THE DAY: Karl Marx, "On the Jewish Question." If you were interested in unpacking the implications of religion in wider society, you could do worse (though you'd have to ignore Marx's irrational dislike of religion as such), since he seems to be teasing out things everyone can agree on (or debate on):
"The attitude of the state, especially the free state, towards religion is only the attitude towards religion of the individuals who compose the state. It follows that man frees himself from a constraint in a political way, through the state, when he transcends his limitations, in contradiction with himself, and in an abstract, narrow and partial way... Finally, even when he proclaims himself an atheist through the intermediary of the state, that is, when he declares the state to be atheist, he is still engrossed in religion, because he only recognizes himself as an atheist in a roundabout way, through an intermediary."
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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