Lanky_Pomegranate530 to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 2 years agoWhat is a popular book that everyone buys but nobody reads?message-square111fedilinkarrow-up1138arrow-down19
arrow-up1129arrow-down1message-squareWhat is a popular book that everyone buys but nobody reads?Lanky_Pomegranate530 to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 2 years agomessage-square111fedilink
minus-square@redballooon@lemm.eelinkfedilink27•2 years agoI don’t even need to buy them. They just pile up unread. One of them has nice art in it.
minus-square@alokir@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink5•2 years ago I don’t even need to buy them. They just pile up unread How? I’ve read this many times, but I never understood it. Do people just hand them out on the street or is it customary to give bibles as a gift?
minus-square@redballooon@lemm.eelinkfedilink6•2 years agoWhen you celebrate a life event in church you go home with a new Bible.
minus-square@RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink6•2 years agoReally? I’ve been to weddings and funerals and baptisms in churches and never have I been offered a bible. Maybe it’s a local thing?
minus-square@atlasraven31@lemm.eelinkfedilink5•2 years agoCount yourself lucky. If you want one, any church would be happy to provide.
minus-square@davefischer@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglish3•2 years agoI inherited a ton of books from my father, who was a minister & a Jungian psychologist. Lots of old interesting bibles, in a handful of languages. (Plus a Koran, and some Crowley, and of shelf full of Trotsky… ha ha. Lotta books.)
I don’t even need to buy them. They just pile up unread. One of them has nice art in it.
How? I’ve read this many times, but I never understood it. Do people just hand them out on the street or is it customary to give bibles as a gift?
When you celebrate a life event in church you go home with a new Bible.
Really? I’ve been to weddings and funerals and baptisms in churches and never have I been offered a bible. Maybe it’s a local thing?
Count yourself lucky. If you want one, any church would be happy to provide.
I inherited a ton of books from my father, who was a minister & a Jungian psychologist. Lots of old interesting bibles, in a handful of languages. (Plus a Koran, and some Crowley, and of shelf full of Trotsky… ha ha. Lotta books.)