I GUESS MARX WAS CORRECT ABOUT RELIGION

He famously wrote that religion is "the opium of the people" and in 1834 a Massachusetts state court judge  in one of Abner Kneeland's blasphemy trials seemed to express a similar thought:

SOURCE: "The Blasphemy of Abner Kneeland" by Henry Steele Commager, New England Quarterly, Mar., 1935, vol. 8, no. 1, p. 29-41