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I consider the public library to be the secular society's equivalent of a church -- a place where the entire community can freely meet and exchange ideas, where
by atacrawl 15y ago
I consider the public library to be the secular society's equivalent of a church -- a place where the entire community can freely meet and exchange ideas, where mind and spirit can be enlightened through knowledge. I fear as libraries go, so goes secularism itself.
- gavinlynch 15y agoI struggle to see the correlation.
- gavinlynch 15y agoI'd be happy to have a discussion about a possible relationship between libraries and a dissolution of secular thinking in America--I'm just saying an emotional and hyperbolic lamentation of the death of a library is not that discussion. Not sure why that's a down vote. I just don't see the correlation.
- kiba 15y agoI thought it was called the coffee shop.
- gavinlynch 15y agoor the Internets?
- pjscott 15y agoI've always thought of them as a place where you go to get books. Those other things are nice, but secondary.