Escape From El-Ashaq Religious suffering is at one and the same time the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people…The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness…Thus the criticism of heaven turns into the criticism of earth, the criticism of religion turns into the criticism of law and the criticism of theology into the criticism of politics. Set apart in origin and design, the content