To Marx, Religion Promotes the Status Quo by Teaching the Powerless

question 17

Multiple Choice

To Marx, religion promotes the status quo by teaching the powerless to accept

• A) a belief system in which the sacred is separate from the secular.
• B) that people bestow the notion of the sacred onto something, rather than that object being intrinsically sacred.
• C) the idea of single God in three persons.
• D) religious beliefs that are against their own interests.

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Definitions:

Major Premise

In a syllogism, the first proposition which asserts a general principle.

Singular Propositions

Statements that make a claim about a specific single entity or unique instance.

Syllogisms

Logical arguments that apply deductive reasoning to arrive at a conclusion based on two or more premises that are asserted to be true.

Minor Term

In syllogistic logic, the term that appears in the conclusion and is the subject of the minor premise.