Quotation by

Karl Marx

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

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Karl Marx is saying that religion exists because people feel powerless when faced with events they cannot explain or control. It reflects a failure of human thinking to find rational answers for certain experiences.

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