• IonAddis@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        I was going to contradict you, that bookstores always carry bibles…but then I realized the memory I was thinking of was from the 90s.

        I’d say this is just a good excuse for me to go to the bookstore and check…but they’ve all become so small and sad that I kind of don’t want to. I just get depressed.

        I know ebooks and audiobooks have massively taken off so people are reading/listening still…I just miss my childhood refuge being stuffed chock-full of treasures.

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      2 years ago

      I don’t even need to buy them. They just pile up unread. One of them has nice art in it.

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        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?

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          2 years ago

          When I was in college, once or twice a year there were people from some religious group who would come and stand at the most busy intersections for foot traffic and literally hand them out on the street, yes. They were quite pushy about it