My personal Philosophy of the world

Today I want to talk a little bit about what I think is one of the more underrated quote.
I'm talking about Karl Marx and this quote:

"Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."

The quote is usually reduced to "Religion is the opium of the people", and many people, to explain it, basically just say the meaning is "Religion is bad".
In this quote there is far more than that. Everybody can say religion is bad, and it would be just one of the thousand of voice saying that, against thousand saying the opposite. But Marx was a philosopher, and meant something else.
That quote is maybe the best analysis of religion from a social science aspect.

Religious suffering is real suffering, but to another dimension. You protest against the real suffering by going somewhere else. Marx calls the man an oppressed creature because the man is oppressed by the world!
For now, we are on the hands of "faith" (defined as the things that may happen), without any real power against nature. We are oppressed by what's going on in the world, we are oppressed by our sorrow, our pain, the bad things in our life. So we chose religion as our sight, to see what we what to see and not see what we don't want to.
Religion gives us a reason to live, an heart to a world that otherwise, would be meaningless, as it actually is. Man can not stand the greatness of a world without heart, without emotions and pain. We can not just be a random possibility of an heartless thing as the universe.

Religion gives people a refuge, a place to feel safe. Religion, as a drug, make people feel OK and don't care for what's the reality around them. Like an anaesthetic, it doesn't make them feel the pain. Which may be good sometimes, but hides from reality.
We need to have a soul, the earth can not be without soul. If we look at things as they really are, we will be shocked. We can't accept that.
So we have to find an alternative true, in which our fairy tails are real and in which everything has a reason. It's just human nature.

Humans need an opium as religion to live without killing themselves. Is the only way. Well, actually there is an other way. Realize truth and learn to accept it as it is.

From what I wrote it seems that such a thing that gives you hope is great. Everyone's happy with it, right? Right.

There is just one little thing. Accept religion is saying that mankind is still weak and childish. Is saying that we are not ready yet for reality, and we need an illusion or a fairy tail. Faith is good, but is like virginity.
Sooner or later, you have to loose it. You have to live and experience. Trying to keep faith for too much don't make you go anywhere.
Faith is like believing in Santa Claus too. It's good to believe in Santa, but when you're little. If you still believe in him when you're adult, there is a problem.
You don't want to accept reality and be an adult. You still want the world of the children, perfect.
An adult man that believe in Religion is like an adult man that believes in Santa Claus.

A perfect world would be great, but unfortunately, the world is far from being perfect.
So here it is: what will you choose?
The lie that make you feel good and stay in your perfect world, cutting out reality, or a firstly painful truth that with time will become the realization of being ready to accept the world, his good and bad things, a realization that you opened your eyes, you're out of the cave, and you can see the splendid sun of reality outside?


p.s. : the final reference is to the allegory of the cave of Plato.