Labor, Punishment, Salvation

The punishment, according to Genesis III, of the human race includes Labor, in two senses.  Thus, the salvation from that condition promised by Christianity includes the liberation from toil.  So, because Christianity is the predominant Religion of the era, that liberation is very likely part of the "illusory happiness" to which Marx opposes Socialism.  Now, implicit in the Biblical scenario is the status of Labor as inherently an accursed condition for humans.  But, if so, that status complicates Marxism in several respects.  First, insofar as Socialism is a rival to Religion as a means to Happiness, it accepts the denigration of Labor, thereby varying from the dignifying of it in some cardinal passages.  Furthermore, if having to toil is a divine punishment, then not having to toil can only have divine blessing, either on a priori grounds, or as a by-product of Salvation.  In either case, the reality of the existence of the ownership classes as a liberated condition needs to be addressed by the Socialist critique of Religion, the simplification of which as an illusion leaves unaddressed.