A book which has been absolutely boycotted by the literary reviews of America.
THE PROFITS OF RELIGION
By Upton Sinclair
A study of Supernaturalism as a Source of Income
and a Shield to Privilege; the first examination in
any language of institutionalized religion from the economic
point of view. "Has the labour as well as the
merit of breaking virgin soil," writes Joseph McCabe.
The book has had practically no advertising and only two
or three reviews in radical publications; yet forty thousand
copies have been sold in the first year.
From the Rev. John Haynes Holmes: "I must confess that it
has fairly made me writhe to read these pages, not because they
are untrue or unfair, but on the contrary, because I know them
to be the real facts. I love the church as I love my home, and
therefore it is no pleasant experience to be made to face such a
story as this which you have told. It had to be done, however,
and I am glad you have done it, for my interest in the church,
after all, is more or less incidental, whereas my interest in religion
is a fundamental thing. . . . Let me repeat again that
I feel that you have done us all a service in the writing of this
book. Our churches today, like those of ancient Palestine, are the
abode of Pharisees and scribes. It is as spiritual and helpful a
thing now as it was in Jesus' day for that fact to be revealed."
From Luther Burbank: "No one has ever told 'the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth' more faithfully than Upton Sinclair in 'The Profits of Religion.'"
From Louis Untermeyer: "Let me add my quavering alto to the chorus of applause of 'The Profits of Religion.' It is something more than a bookâit is a Work!"
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