The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation

Within the House of Mammon his priesthood stands alert By mysteries attended, by dusk and splendors girt, Knowing, for faiths departed, his own shall still endure, And they be f...

Was it for this--that prayers like these Should spend themselves about thy feet, And with hard, overlabored knees Kneeling, these slaves of men should beat Bosoms too lean to su...

They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, And how one ought never to think of one's self, And how pleasures of thought surpass eating and drinking-- My pleasure of...

See, underneath the Crown of Thorn, The eye-balls fierce, the features grim! And merrily from night to morn We chaunt his praise and worship him-- Great Christus-Jingo, at whose...

They have taken the tomb of our Comrade Christ-- Infidel hordes that believe not in man; Stable and stall for his birth sufficed, But his tomb is built on a kingly plan. They ha...

Mammon led them on-- Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell From Heaven; for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of Hea...

When the first savage saw his hut destroyed by a bolt of lightning, he fell down upon his face in terror. He had no conception of natural forces, of laws of electricity; he saw...

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 Mora...

The Rain Makers 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...

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 Men...

The Face of Caesar Deutschland ueber Alles Der Tag King Cotton Witches and Women Moth and Rust To Lyman Abbott The Octopus The Industrial Shelley The Outlook for Graft Clerical...

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 Fina...