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To: GrandEagle

Actually, I am Catholic and I frequent Catholic bookshops a lot. We must be a very self-interested group of people (LOL!), because I have never, ever seen a book that so much as mentioned Baptists, or any other religion! There are boatloads of books on catechism, apologetics, Mary, the Saints, Holy Communion, the Pope, the rosary, baptism, scapulars, etc., IOW all the bells and whistles pertaining to our faith.

In our library in our parish, we additionally do have a small section containing books (it appeared after 9/11, when people’s curiosity about islam got piqued) such as “world religions for dummies” type books which give a brief overview of what other faiths believe, but I have never even opened one of them, so I have to admit that I have no idea what is presented in them. However, these books are not “Catholic” books, they are secular books that would readily be found (and I have seen them) in a Borders or Barnes and Noble in the Religion section, so if there is anything derogatory in them, it is probably against Catholics anyway!


283 posted on 05/04/2007 1:59:52 PM PDT by VRWCer ("The Bible is the Rock on which this Republic rests." - President Andrew Jackson)
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To: VRWCer
I have never, ever seen a book that so much as mentioned Baptists
LOL! It was just a guess to make a point.
The only books I've seen are similar in nature to the ones you talked about(religion X for dummies). They just explain the beliefs of other denominations. I've never seen one that is anti-(insert denomination).

Cordially,
GE
302 posted on 05/04/2007 2:46:57 PM PDT by GrandEagle
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To: VRWCer
Actually, I am Catholic and I frequent Catholic bookshops a lot. We must be a very self-interested group of people (LOL!),

I've never seen them in a Catholic bookstore either, but I have seen them in several evangelical themed bookstores.

338 posted on 05/04/2007 9:22:41 PM PDT by sevenbak (A LIE travels around the world while the TRUTH is still putting on its boots -Winston Churchill)
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Go to Nauvoo, there is a "Christian bookstore right near the temple, IIRC 2/3 of the store is anti books.

There is no point in stocking the books where there are no Mormons. Mormons will see them because like this thread, the anti's go where we are.
549 posted on 05/05/2007 3:54:14 PM PDT by DelphiUser ("You can lead a man to knowledge, but you can't make him think")
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