one another by treating their products as commodities and values, whereby they reduce their individual private labor to the standard of homogeneous human labor--for such a society, Christianity with its cultus of abstract man, more especially in its bourgeois developments, Protestantism, Deism, etc., is the most fitting form of religion . . . The religious reflex of the real world can, in any case, only then finally vanish, when the practical relations of everyday life offer to man none but perfectly intelligible and reasonable relations with regard to his fellowman and to nature" (Marx 91-92). In other words, people will continue to follow superstitious beliefs until they learn that more empirical and practical values can truly improve society more than anything else. Mankind will live in ignorance and superstitious fear until something better comes along. Actually it is the sun of ignorance that really blinds--not the sun of truth. The truth involves
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