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The social-conflict paradigm of Marx highlights religion’s support for social hierarchy. Religion, as claimed by Marx, serves ruling elites by legitimizing the status quo and diverting people’s attention from the social inequities of society. Most religions create or reinforce systems of stratification. To this extent, religion is a form of alienation; it is a symptom of social malformation that disguises the exploitative nature of capitalist society. Above all, for Marx, religion has an ideological character, especially considering its part in maintaining capitalist society. For Marx, religion is an ideological apparatus that the upper class uses to maintain control of society and to dominate the lower classes.