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The Bible in the Back Seat

    My place of employment (one of the two) offers me the unusual opportunity to see in people's backseats and trunks on a daily basis (we sell bottled water and salt, which I sometimes load into customers' cars).  Besides the expected junk, things like clothing, sports equipment, and other oddities, I often spot Bibles in these cars.  Now, before I proceed any further, let me mention that I work in Green, Ohio, which, as with Northeastern Ohio as a whole, is pretty religious, Roman Catholicism being especially strong, so Bibles are not exactly unexpected.  Let's proceed.  These Bibles are usually lying placidly on the backseat or hiding in the seat pockets, that is, they're usually somewhere that does get much attention.  When I first started working at this employer (five long years ago), I had a wide array of reactions to seeing these Bibles.  Sometimes I was surprised, like, "They have a Bible in their car?"  Sometimes there was no surpr...