OFFERTORY

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."


CONTENTS

[ THE PROFITS OF RELIGION ]

[ OFFERTORY ]

[ INTRODUCTORY ]

[ BOOTSTRAP-LIFTING ]

[ 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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