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Pacifying the poor is just good business. Whether you do it with Christianity, food stamps, or reality TV, is irrelevant.
Historically, people in positions of influence used Christianity as a tool to keep masses in check, yes. But it is not the only powerful religion/philosophy to have been twisted or manipulated by people in power to serve their agenda.
And if you think that Christianity led to the Enlightenment (which is a reasonable position, though you can also say that Plato led to Christianity--through Plotinus and Co.), then it also carried the seeds of its own demise. So the revolution became the establishment, which then had another revolution built into its operating system.