even when marx called religion the opiate of the people,125 he was merely echoing the sentiments of xenophanes who said that any dominant species like man with his comforting anthropomorphic portrayals of god the father would create a deity in the likeness of that particular species.126 it is absurd to think that which is composed of atoms ( singular atoms being the successful link between energy and ephemeral conglomerations of atoms called matter ) , has spirit of the conglomeration itself .