Would you shop in an Evangelical bookstore?

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A bookstore that sells only Evangelical material (books, tapes, t-shirts, games and so forth) recently opened near my house. Their window displays what seem to be nice toys for children, books by Max Lucado and C.S. Lewis and some CDs of instrumental music.
My question is: is it OK to buy something there? :hmmm: or will my money be helping them spread error and or attack the Catholic Church? 😦

Thank you for your advice!

:blessyou:

Alma
 
My rule of thumb has always been to make sure they don’t sell Jack Chick tracts first. If they don’t, then it must be safe…😉

I’ve been in a few stores that had several racks of the horrid things. I walked right out. They won’t get my business.
 
I have shopped in evangelical stores, but would certainly not do so if I spotted anything that could be construed as anti-Cathoilc. Barean is pretty good…They carry a lot of the Veggie Tale stuff, plus some other good books and cd’s for the kids.

It’s stil Ok in this country to be anti-Cathoilc, so you do have to be careful…
 
I’m not sure. But I would always go to a Catholic bookstore in preference and spend my money there. I want them to stay in business, so I give them my business. In my experience, it is hard to find decent Catholic bookstores. I am very fortunate to have one about 30 min away right now (it opened a few years ago), so I want to support it.

Clearly, the local Evangelical Christian bookstore doesn’t sell pornography, and many secular bookstores do. So, if my only choice is betweeen EC and secular, I suppose EC it would be. Well, maybe that was before the Internet. Now you can shop online and avoid the whole issue.:clapping:
 
No I wouldn’t. I guess I think the money I give them might be funneled into a ministry which in turn attempts to convert Catholics out there. So I’m helping in the conversions of Catholics to Protestantism.

Besides, if I wanted to read a Protestant book… you can find most titles on a neutral site like amazon.com
 
It really depends on how they treat the Catholic Church. Check to see where books on Catholicism are, if they’re in a seperate ‘Catholic’ section thats great! Its even better if they carry Catholic Bibles or apologetic works! If they’ve shoved any books on Catholicism in the Pagan or Occult sections, its not a good place to shop.

Also, as someone else mentioned, if you see Chick tracts: complain then leave & never go back.

We have no Catholic stores in our diocese, only Protestant. One store has Chick tracts, anti-catholic books, the works. The other carries Catholic Bibles (in their own little section), some Catholic books on saints, the Roman Missal, some prayer books, rosaries & even a few statues. I shop there whenever I buy stuff in town. They’ll even special order Catholic goods. Both bookstores are run by evangelical Christians, one gets my business & the other doesn’t…
 
We have a big superstore-y evangelical protestant place near us. They don’t sell anything to do with Catholics at all. Nothing good, nothing bad…just nothing. So, I’ve bought a couple things there before, but not too much since a little Catholic store opened down the street. I try to get anything I need there. I figure they need the business with that huge store going on in the same area.

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Alma:
A bookstore that sells only Evangelical material (books, tapes, t-shirts, games and so forth) recently opened near my house. Their window displays what seem to be nice toys for children, books by Max Lucado and C.S. Lewis and some CDs of instrumental music.
My question is: is it OK to buy something there? :hmmm: or will my money be helping them spread error and or attack the Catholic Church? 😦

Thank you for your advice!

:blessyou:

Alma
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Unless the specific owner of the owner is known to be anti-Catholic, I don’t think it matters at all. Many of the writers they have there, like C.S. Lewis for example, are probably more pro-Catholic than they realize or understand. Good Catholic bookstores are hard to find. Fortunately, we have a small but good one in Salem, and there is a great one at the Grotto in northeast Portland.
 
I did shop at one a couple of months ago. I spent about 30 minutes shopping for a gift, paid for it then I noticed some Jack Chick tracts on my way out. Never will enter that store again. I’d rather drive to the next town to shop at a Catholic bookstore. They have so much more anyway.
 
I’ve been to an Evangelical Bookstore. I happened to see a shelf of books saying very nasty things about the Catholic church. It made me feel perturbed, because we are Christian, despite what some (not all) Evangelicals think. I would say as long as they don’t have an anti-Catholic section, then it would be fine. But check your local Catholic bookstore first, for any book you might be looking for. I’d rather give my money to a Catholic shop instead.
 
Living here in Little Rock, AR there are so many evangelical bookstore’s and sadly only one Catholic bookstore. Thankfully they have everything a Catholic could ever dream of. 🙂

I never shop at the evangelical store’s because they really don’t sell anything I want. 😉
 
When I lived in the Philadelphia area, I use to go bookstore ran by the Mennonites (I know, that is not evangelical) due to the selection of Christian music the had. They also has a good selection of computer software for studying Biblical Greek.

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I would only buy something if I saw that they stocked Catholic items as well, and that they carried nothing anti-Catholic.

If I see no Catholic items, I always ask about it. “Excuse me, where are the rosaries?” If they say they don’t carry anything Catholic I ask “Why not? This is a Christian book store isn’t it? Catholicism is a Christian religion” Then I ask for the manager and file a verbal complaint.
 
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I did shop at one a couple of months ago. I spent about 30 minutes shopping for a gift, paid for it then I noticed some Jack Chick tracts on my way out. Never will enter that store again. I’d rather drive to the next town to shop at a Catholic bookstore. They have so much more anyway.
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Pardon my ignorance, :o what is a "Jack Chick tract’ ?

Alma
 
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Alma:
Pardon my ignorance, :o what is a "Jack Chick tract’ ?

Alma
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Google that name. Jack Chick is vehemently anti-Catholic and spends his life publishing mean, horrible things about the Church. :mad:
 
I would, personally, not shop in an Evangelical bookstore, and I am a huge fan of books (i.e. :bible1: :clapping: ).

I might sound a bit traditionalist (which, actually, I am), but I still think of Protestantism as a major and dangerous heresy. Just because it has coexisted with the Church for 500 years doesn’t make it less of a heresy or less dangerous. In fact, now it has chronology, and is more dangerous! Paul predicted a “falling away” amongst Christians, and I find it’s fulfillment in the Protestant “churches”.

You will not find me supporting them.
 
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I might sound a bit traditionalist (which, actually, I am), but I still think of Protestantism as a major and dangerous heresy. Just because it has coexisted with the Church for 500 years doesn’t make it less of a heresy or less dangerous. In fact, now it has chronology, and is more dangerous! Paul predicted a “falling away” amongst Christians, and I find it’s fulfillment in the Protestant “churches”.
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Very, very , v-e-r-y well said!!
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I can pretty much guarantee that if the Catholic bookstore in my town does not have something I want, they could help me get it. If there is a religious book or article they will not get, chances are, I shouldn’t be getting it either. There are millions of books, movies, CD’s, and religious articles out there- even the Catholic ones are too numerous for me to ever be able to use all of them. I no longer see a reason to read anything that isn’t Catholic- except maybe CS Lewis- I read/heard things by non-catholics the first 19 years of my life, and, quite frankly, nothing impressed me- nothing has changed about non-Catholic religions in my mind either.
 
No, I would not! There are several with in driving distance, but both have racks full of anti-Catholic garbage. There are three Catholic stores in Toledo, so that’s where we go.
 
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Alma:
A bookstore that sells only Evangelical material (books, tapes, t-shirts, games and so forth) recently opened near my house. Their window displays what seem to be nice toys for children, books by Max Lucado and C.S. Lewis and some CDs of instrumental music.
My question is: is it OK to buy something there? :hmmm: or will my money be helping them spread error and or attack the Catholic Church? 😦

Thank you for your advice!

:blessyou:

Alma
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NOPE, either we are Catholic or NOT.
 
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