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Marx was simply saying that capitalist reality is so painful that people fall back on religion to ease the pain (hence “opium”) which is counter-productive because they need to realize that human agency is what ultimately change the course of history.
Religion is hence “dangerous” in the sense that people have surrendered their agency to a “higher power” and no longer feel they are the ones that have to do the work to change the world.