Carlos Alberto Libânio Christo, better known as Frei Betto is a Brazilian writer, political activist, philosopher, liberation theologian, and former Dominican friar.
It is the bourgeoisie which has turned religion into an opium of the people by preaching a God, lord of the heavens only, while taking possession of the earth for itself.
For me, men are not divided into believers and atheists, but between oppressors and oppressed, between those who want to keep this unjust society and those who want to struggle for justice.