> "Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real
> distress and the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh
> of the oppressed creature, the heart of the heartless world, just as
> it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. The demand to give up
> illusions about its condition is the demand to give up a condition
> that needs illusions. Criticism has plucked the imaginary flower from
> the chain, not so that men will wear the chain without any fantasy or
> consolation, but that they will break the chain and cull the living
> flower."
The word "Amen" comes to mind.