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The theory, based on economics, according to which religion was invented to help despoil the working class is unscientific: it is also unworthy of those who boast that they are led by reason. The very adherence to such a theory proves that they are led much more by strong emotion.

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 4 : Problems of Organized Religion > # 13