The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence.

Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) American writer, journalist, activist, politician

The Profits of Religion, Book Two: “The Church of Good Society,” “The Canonization of Incompetence” (1917)
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