Sunday Culture Watch

  • Dick Staub suggests that we all read the article in the March issue of “The AtlanticGod’s Country, an article about Christianity and Islam battling it out for religious superiority in Nigeria. Here in Africa’s most populous nations (140 million, one seventh of Africa) and wealthiest nation (one tenth of oil reserves) we learn that “using militias and marketing strategies,” Christianity and Islam are competing for believers by promising Nigerians prosperity in this world as well as salvation in the next. The Staublog
  • The Bible is the fastest selling book in Western culture (averaging fifty copies a minute) while outpacing all others as the most shoplifted book. The History Channel
  • 2000 new automobiles are added to the roads of China daily. MSNBC