Which of the following aspects of Marx’s insights about religion is problematic?

A. his assertion that religion may divert people from the immediate problems of daily life
B. his central idea that religion is purely a mystification enabling the ruling class to deceive the masses
C. his understanding that religion can fill a need that has little to do with economic or political power
D. his failure to see the connection between modernization and secularization


Ans: B

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