Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R. Assertion A: According to Marxism, religion acts like an 'opium of the masses' for the exploited and suffering individual. Reason R: Religion diverts the exploited individual from fighting against their real class enemies by encouraging them toward supernatural happiness and making them fatalistic. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

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Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)

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