Religion and Labor

According to one of the most influential passages in Western civilization, Genesis III, Labor is a curse on Humanity.  Thus, Religion is as much scourge as opium, and the promise of happiness that it offers, real or not, obscures the reality of the misery that it has codified.  In that context, the exploitation of Labor is a relatively trivial injustice.  More generally, Marxism occasionally seems to be at cross-purposes--dignifying Labor vs. promoting the elimination of it via Technology.  If there is a confusion in that respect, it is rooted in a relatively benign diagnosis of the influence of Religion in Western civilization.