BOOK TWO — The Church of Good Society

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BOOK ONE — The Church of the Conquerors

THE PROFITS OF RELIGION

CONTENTS

OFFERTORY

THE PROFITS OF RELIGION

By Upton Sinclair

An Essay in Economic Interpretation

THE PROFITS OF RELIGION

This book is a study of Supernaturalism from a new point of view—as a Source of Income and a Shield to Privilege. I have searched the libraries through, and no one has done it before. If you read it, you will see that it needed to be done. It has meant twenty-five years of thought and a year of investigation. It contains the facts.

I publish the book myself, so that it may be available at the lowest possible price. I am giving my time and energy, in return for one thing which you may give me—the joy of speaking a true word and getting it heard.

The present volume is the first of a series, which will do for Education, Journalism and Literature what has here been done for the Church: the four volumes making a work of revolutionary criticism, an Economic Interpretation of Culture under the general title of "The Dead Hand."

OFFERTORY

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTORY

BOOTSTRAP-LIFTING

RELIGION

The Priestly Lie

The Great Fear

Salve Regina!

Fresh Meat

Priestly Empires

Prayer-wheels

The Butcher-Gods

The Holy Inquisition

Hell-Fire

The Babylonian Fire-god

The Medicine-men

The Canonization of Incompetence

Gibson's Preservative

The Elders

Church History

Land and Livings

Graft in Tail

Bishops and Beer

Anglicanism and Alcohol

Dead Cats

Suffer Little Children

The Court Circular

Horn-blowing

Trinity Corporation

Spiritual Interpretation