Marx was wrong

Karl Marx was wrong about many things, but one thing he really got wrong was his lament that "Religion is the opiate of the people." It's pretty clear that religion is not used to sedate the masses, but rather inflame them. More accurately, we should say that religion is the crystal meth of the people. Muslims are most susceptible to this kind of unreasoning madness and violence, but Christians shouldn't be too smug or self-righteous either. Christianity has a long history of similar witless persecution. I can hear the replies now: "but that was in the Dark Ages, Christians don't do that anymore." Forget for the moment that Christianity was responsible for the Dark Ages. Anyway, sorry, but this kind of behavior is still going on. Christians deny (or try to deny) birth control or condoms in countries where people are dying of starvation or AIDS. In the US, evangelical preachers teach their followers to persecute gays or other 'sinners' or non-believers. No real social or intellectual progress will be made for mankind unless people can somehow escape the clutches of religion. All religion.
(By the way, notice that the story about the British teacher was authored by a guy name Mohamed. I wonder if the masses will advocate that he or his parents should be stoned.)