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The Profits of Religion (Great Minds Series.)
This excoriating critique of religion, especially as represented by powerful clerical institutions, is a lesser-known work by the author who had earlier become famous by his publication of The Jungle. More than just a broadside against religion, this is the work of an impassioned, idealistic socialist writing at the beginning of the First World War, when the notion of an i...more
Paperback, 315 pages
Published
November 28th 2000
by Prometheus Books
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Sinclair is a passionate and articulate advocate, and I enjoy his rhetoric on behalf of working people and against social inequality. The main thrust of his argument, however, is that religion, as it now exists, (or more accurately as it then existed) is nothing more than a tool used to keep the oppressed from rising up against a wealthy class that the religious leaders represent.
It is an argument that I might have found compelling in my youth. In fact, when I was in high school I...more
It is an argument that I might have found compelling in my youth. In fact, when I was in high school I...more
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One of my favorite books of all time.
An excellent discussion of the $$ behind religion and how it controls individuals in order to "push" them down a particular path. Still reading this book but agreeing with it so far...
Known mostly for his "muckraking" novel "The Jungle," Sinclair was a versatile and prolific writer and political activist. "The Profits of Religion"
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Prolific American author who wrote over 90 books in many genres and was widely considered to be one of the best investigators advocating socialist views and supporting anarchist causes, he achieved considerable popularity in the first half of the 20th century.
He gained particular fame for his novel, The Jungle (1906), which dealt with conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry and c...more
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He gained particular fame for his novel, The Jungle (1906), which dealt with conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry and c...more
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“...the priests of all these cults, the singers, shouters, prayers and exhorters of Bootstrap-lifting have as their distinguishing characteristic that they do very little lifting at their own bootstraps, and less at any other man's. Now and then you may see one bend and give a delicate tug, of a purely symbolical character: as when the Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Bootstrap-lifters comes once a year to wash the feet of the poor; or when the Sunday-school Superintendent of the Baptist Bootstrap-lifters shakes the hand of one of his Colorado mine-slaves. But for the most part the priests and preachers of Bootstrap-lifting walk haughtily erect, many of them being so swollen with prosperity that they could not reach their bootstraps if they wanted to. Their role in life is to exhort other men to more vigorous efforts at self-elevation, that the agents of the Wholesale Pickpockets' Association may ply their immemorial role with less chance of interference.”
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