tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post3339237679103973651..comments2024-03-12T11:58:24.510+13:00Comments on Otagosh: The Manna MerchantsGavin Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17965552923012880262noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post-22248473859861195362010-11-29T03:04:55.042+13:002010-11-29T03:04:55.042+13:00Nah. I just keep a low profile. Keep the Solstices...Nah. I just keep a low profile. Keep the Solstices and stuff, I do. Fortunately, those (mostly) coincide with the Anglican festivals (Christmas, Easter, like that). In my family, it's very much "Don't ask, don't tell," when it comes to religion. <br /><br />Most of the people here are the same, actually, although every now and again you might get the odd bird who thumps Bibles in the supermarket. They're generally looked askance at, though. <br /><br />Every few years, the bookstore owner will get on a religious tear, and paper everyone's doorsteps with <em>Watchtowers</em>, but no one complains, as the magazine is excellent firestarter material. :-DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post-44765669456082569002010-11-28T21:21:01.497+13:002010-11-28T21:21:01.497+13:00PH, time to head outa Dodge!PH, time to head outa Dodge!Gavin Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17965552923012880262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post-16801528638011759422010-11-28T13:54:05.913+13:002010-11-28T13:54:05.913+13:00Hah! Have I got a rule-breaker for you! The one (a...Hah! Have I got a rule-breaker for you! The one (and ONLY) "Christian bookstore" in my one-horse town is owned by (drumroll, please) the one (and ONLY) JW family in town. So it's the religious equivalent of the town's one Chinese restaurant. Lots and lotsa copies of the New Advent Bible, or for the Anglicans, the KJV. Although they also sell the Christian version of Harlequin romances, which a(n Anglican) cousin of mine is fond of, for unguessable reasons.<br /><br />The only other source for professing Christian brainwashing material is the local remaindereds-from-Chapters chain bookstore, which stocks not one, not two, but THREE shelves of Anglican or Catholic material. The Hitchens, Dawkins, and Harris tomes in the same section remaining unpurchased and quite defaced, several years after being ordered in. (No, I haven't quite gotten up the nerve to purchase any of them, the town is far too small, and I am related to far too many of its inhabitants.) Which tells you all need to know, yes?<br /><br />Welcome to PH's hometown! Where the only religious choices are "Either/Or" to wit: EITHER Anglican OR Catholic. The rest of the Christianities have their three or four churches all sequestered together in the religious ghetto of town, where they remain as mild curiosities, and not much more. The small synagogue was driven out in the 1940s, I believe. Definitely no other world religions represented here, either.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com