Mrs Sidecar and I are both atheists and we've probably got half a dozen kicking about. All inherited via the libraries of various dead relatives and never discarded.
I've got a bunch of different versions, different languages, and different sizes (pocket-sized Old Testaments are hilarious), but I would probably have actual or near-dupes if more than one person lived in my home. Lots of kids at church get scriptures as gifts once they're stronger readers.
This is possibly the worst fake book box I've ever seen. Not even any effort to make it look like a book.
Why didn't they just make it look like a giftbox of chocolates or cookies?!? Oh right, because people would try to open THAT.
OR just use one of those butter cookie tins that never have cookies in them. Everyone seems to have one of those, used for bits and junk; no one would suspect a mini gun-safe to be in one.
Ancillary Justice is also kind of a contrast. It is a really good sci fi, and one of the little tidbits in the worldbuilding is that whatever the dominant language is doesn't do gendered pronouns, so Leckie just uses "she" as the default. It's been a while since I read it, but I think that's right.
Same for "The Making of Biblical Womanhood" which is all about how the church invented the idea of submissive women out of whole cloth and how it's a perversion of what's actually in the Bible. Definitely not a popular book with conservative Christians.
What's the betting they either bought it by mistake or were given it as a joke/education, and haven't so much as glanced inside to realise what it's actually saying?
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I could also see having multiple versions, because some translations are wildly different, but multiple KJVs?
Why didn't they just make it look like a giftbox of chocolates or cookies?!? Oh right, because people would try to open THAT.
They’re marketing to evangelicals apparently