Plenty of really good stuff available through Free RPG Day. Also, DriveThruRpg Dot Com has plenty of fascinating printable props, such as book covers and coins/tokens.
But if we wanted to drive her into an absolute froth, let’s see about printing and distributing some parodies of Chick Tracts…
http://www.monsterwax.com/parodytracts.html
Why are so many of these self-proclaimed “Christians” such vile and ignorant people?
If LFL had existed when I was a child, I think I would have been in heaven. Luckily, I did grow up in Chicago with a fantastic used book store within biking distance.
I see the occasional religious book in local LFLs and I don’t have any objection to them, heck I’m certain we have a few in my home personal library stacks, but taking out good books and putting in any version of the Bible is just terrible. I’ve read the Bible, both when I was growing up as a church attendee and as a person reading a book…it’s not a great and easy read. Why don’t they take a cue from their own complaints and “avoid some indoctrination”, huh?
well… according to christianity today, even among evangelicals, only about 61% of them have read the bible. ( and only 33% of people who consider themselves politically conservative have. )
and even that is probably a little misleading, as white adults are apparently less likely to have read the bible than black and hispanic adults ( and white evangelicalism is quite different than black evangelicalism. )
Nearly one-third (29%) of black adults say they’ve read the Bible from start to finish, more than Hispanic adults (22%) and white adults (19%).
( who knows how accurate any of that is )
I’ve seen some religious stuff in my local LFL but never felt that it was my place to remove it or anything else that I didn’t want others reading. I didn’t remove the three Playboys either. If there’s someone that finds happiness in a copy of the Qoran or The Book of Mormon so be it. That’s their business. I live according to the Phillip Drummond principle which states, “The world don’t move to the beat of just one drum.
What might be right for you, may not be right for some.”
The cognitive dissonance here is immense. She believes she’s the majority, yet none of the little libraries have her books in them. Why do you suppose that is? Because you’re not the majority and nobody wants your stupid books.
That silent majority gets more silent every year, it seems. At some point, you gotta think maybe “silence” isn’t the reason you never see them around.
If only!
They are. We’re seeing a nasty backlash right now, but they are absolutely losing the culture war.
The sin of Pride.
They honestly think they’re better than everyone else and that they’re on the ONE TRUE PATH ™ to heaven.
That’s why it’s so hard to fight them.
The corollary, of course, being that because they’re on the One True Path to Righteousness, it’s impossible for them to do anything wrong. Everything they do is by definition “good”, because it’s them doing it.
Corollary to the corollary: anyone who tries to point out that there’s a possibility that they aren’t, maybe, doing a good thing must therefore be a tempter who is evil. There is no middle ground or room for doubt or nuance. There is Righteousness and Evil, and everyone is on one side or the other.
They don’t even have the insight or self reflection of Crowley and Aziraphale on the gate of Eden:
Crowley: It’d be funny if we both got it wrong, eh? If I did the good thing and you did the bad one.
Aziraphale: No. It wouldn’t be funny at all.
I hope she’s putting in some Chick tracts, nothing build a better atheist.
Maybe some creative dust jackets would help. Wrap the Bibles in covers saying “Kama Sutra” and “Holy Koran,” and they take them back promptly, probably none the wiser. Not like they are going to actually open the books to read them, after all.
It’s not encouraged because actually reading the bible – as opposed to listening to your pastor’s version of what’s supposed to be in it – can put you on the fast track to atheism.
It’s almost like they’re acting in … bad faith.
From Amy Sedaris…
https://www.instagram.com/p/CvCtJ6wOpIX/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
yeah, it’d be very interesting to hear which books people have read. psalms i think is what many use for regular reading. for evangelicals, i suspect the emphasis is on genesis, then revelations, and nothing in between. ( basing this on my own religious family. no idea how representative that is )
Or deciding that the particular brand of Christianty your parents and pastor are shoveling at you is bullshit and has little to do with Jesus’ teachings except for the name. Which is probably worse in the opinion of those parents and pastors.
Genesis, certain sections of Leviticus (you know exactly which one), and then Revelations.
They skip entirely the beginning of the second half of the book; it gets too “preachy” for them when those four guys start talking. You know, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Who do they think they are, the Bible Beatles?
Is she auditioning to be The Boss level Karen.
Lord help us with these morally self righteous do gooders trying to save us heathens from ourselves.
