Paranormal Relationships

I’ve noticed recently that secular books have been separated from Christian books – you have to go and find a ‘Christian Book Shop’ – is it because Christianity might get contaminated? or is it because Waterstones are just plain scared of God? – the good news is that Amazon don’t seem to be so picky!!

Anyway – I went to Norwich the other day and visited Waterstones. I couldn’t help noticing one of the aisles had an unusually high density of men gawking at the shelves with their heads cocked to one side so they could read the spines. What could possibly be so attractive to ‘men only’?

I could see the ‘spirituality’ section beyond them and in my richest voice started negotiating my way through with those highly original greetings “Excuse me” – “can I just squeeze through”.

The Spirituality section was small and less than inspiring, but here’s the thing – next to the section on spirituality was a larger section titled ‘Paranormal relationships’ – I didn’t stop to browse for too long for fear of meeting someone with green skin of the ‘desperately seeking’ variety.

It left me wondering whether the public are more interested in paranormal relationships than in spirituality and I was equally worried that Joe Public is more and more judging God by the size of his section in Waterstones or indeed by looking at the outside of church buildings.

So . . . what is it that men find so interesting?