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How the Humanist Movement Fosters Economic Injustice –A Movement That Makes a Mockery of Its Conventions | 28 May 2015 | …The idea that solving the social problems produced by religion will allow for solving the problems of economics in fact gets the reality of the matter backwards. “The demand to give up the illusions about its [i.e. the people's] condition” Marx wrote concerning the link between economic hardship and the religious impulse” is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions.” As Michael Rectenwald, Professor of cultural history, science studies, and critical theory at New York University and an expert on the history of secularism, recently suggested to me, with such comments Marx may well have invented what is now called the Existential Security Hypothesis (ESH).