Lanky_Pomegranate530@midwest.social to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoWhat is a popular book that everyone buys but nobody reads?message-squaremessage-square274fedilinkarrow-up1192arrow-down110
arrow-up1182arrow-down1message-squareWhat is a popular book that everyone buys but nobody reads?Lanky_Pomegranate530@midwest.social to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square274fedilink
minus-squareredballooon@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up36arrow-down1·1 year agoI don’t even need to buy them. They just pile up unread. One of them has nice art in it.
minus-squarealokir@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year 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-squareredballooon@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 year agoWhen you celebrate a life event in church you go home with a new Bible.
minus-squareRoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year 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-squareatlasraven31@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoCount yourself lucky. If you want one, any church would be happy to provide.
minus-squaredavefischer@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year 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.)