I am bloody pissed.
The other day I visited our local library. On the way out I checked the free magazine rack and found a copy of “Philadelphia Trumpet”! (https://www.thetrumpet.com/) Scanning through this periodical I saw articles like “How the wrangling over the Holy City hastens Bible prophecy”, “The deadly climate change deception” and other scatological screeds. Of course everything was backed up by some sort of “facts of prophesy”.

The big problem is that the magazine had a Lopez library address on the back and when I checked the periodical section, sure enough, there were other issues with a hand written label. Some may say this has become common, so what’s the big deal. It is NOT common here and IS a big deal. The magazine is published by the Philadelphia church of god and I was shocked that our library would subscribe to something like this. We are not in the bible belt and this sort of thing is simply not done here. Luckily, our librarian is an intelligent woman (she can’t help it that her last name is Pray) who is responsible for our 5 star rating. When we talked she told me she had contacted the magazine and was told it was a free publication and sent out to numerous libraries. The staff (volunteers) don’t know which is legit or not and simply put them (there were several) on a shelf and made a sign. The Librarian feels the same as us about religion (she told me about this link: [en.wikipedia.org]. She removed the magazines and will have a talk to the staff. The issue on the rack was out of place and I was, jokingly, told that Satan put the copy there and sent me to find it!

My point is that our country will have more and more of these stealth maneuvers to get their sick message across. Recently 4 sequential copies of my FFRF were not delivered to my mailbox (which I missed for various reasons). I complained and, magically a copy appeared. All it takes is one fanatic to worm their weasly (sorry weasels) way into our system and screw everything up. We all must be vigilant all the time.

Thank you Victoria for adding another dimension to this. This is an example of how one can make a negative thing motivate non-violent concrete action. Right now there is a war of words and politics and we need to do all we can to keep it that way.

I have contacted FFRF and the admin of the site with a suggestion of donating some FFRF memberships. There is support but some fine details to work out.