To _____, religion promotes stratification since it generally supports a hierarchy of people on earth and the subordination of humankind to an imagined divine authority.

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Karl Marx believed that religion promotes stratification because it supports a social hierarchy by emphasizing the subordination of individuals to a higher power, often imagined as divine authority. Marx argued that religion was used by those in power to maintain their dominance over the working class by using religious ideas to justify inequality and exploitation, and to discourage rebellion or resistance against this social order.

To _____, Religion Promotes Stratification Since It Generally Supports a Hierarchy