The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation
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Chapters (104)(click to expand)
- THE PROFITS OF RELIGION
- An Essay in Economic Interpretation
- THE PROFITS OF RELIGION
- OFFERTORY
- INTRODUCTORY
- BOOTSTRAP-LIFTING
- Bootstrap-lifting? says the reader.
- RELIGION
- BOOK ONE — The Church of the Conquerors
- The Priestly Lie
- The Great Fear
- Salve Regina!
- Fresh Meat
- Priestly Empires
- Prayer-wheels
- The Butcher-Gods
- The Holy Inquisition
- Hell-Fire
- BOOK TWO — The Church of Good Society
- 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
- BOOK THREE — The Church of the Servant-girls
- Charity
- God's Armor
- Thanksgivings
- The Holy Roman Empire
- Temporal Power
- Knights of Slavery
- Priests and Police
- The Church Militant
- The Church Triumphant
- God in the Schools
- The Menace
- King Coal
- The Unholy Alliance
- Secret Service
- Tax Exemption
- "Holy History"
- Das Centrum
- BOOK FOUR — The Church of the Slavers
- Face of Caesar
- Deutschland ueber Alles
- Der Tag.
- King Cotton
- Witches and Women
- Moth and Rust
- The Octopus
- The Industrial Shelley
- The Outlook for Graft
- Clerical Camouflage
- The Jungle
- BOOK FIVE — The Church of the Merchants
- The Head Merchant
- "Herr Beeble"
- Holy Oil
- Rhetorical Black-hanging
- The Great American Fraud
- Riches in Glory
- Captivating Ideals
- Spook Hunting
- Running the Rapids
- Birth Control
- Sheep
- BOOK SIX — The Church of the Quacks
- Tabula Rasa
- The Book of Mormon
- Holy Rolling
- Bible Prophecy
- Koreshanity
- Mazdaznan
- Black Magic
- Mental Malpractice
- Science and Wealth
- New Nonsense
- "Dollars Want Me"
- Spiritual Financiering
- The Graft of Grace
- BOOK SEVEN — The Church of the Social Revolution
- Christ and Caesar
- Locusts and Wild Honey
- Mother Earth
- The Soap Box
- The Church Machine
- The Church Redeemed
- The Desire of Nations
- The Knowable
- Nature's Insurgent Son
- The New Morality
- Envoi
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