Downsizing rational books

I'm back home for the holidays, woo. One of the weird things about being away from home for so long is seeing all the changes when you come back - favorite restaurants disappear and new ones pop up, businesses change, roads appear... These things seem gradual when you're living there, but are a little unnerving when you've been away.

I went to Borders today and noticed the same thing. I always make a B-line to the science section...but it wasn't there. I had to search for a while before I found it stuck in the reference section. Instead of three bookshelves worth of science books, there were now one and a half. Why had science been moved? Because religious books now took up sixteen bookshelves instead twelve, and supernatural/astrology books took up six bookshelves instead of two. It also took me forever to find the atheist books, which I knew were usually stuck in religion, because they now got a single shelf (so 1/5 of a bookshelf) instead of three...and half of the books there were actually against atheism.

Boo.

I understand it's all about supply and demand, but that still makes me sad. How many Christian apologetics books does a person need? How many versions of the Bible could you possibly want? Four bookshelves were devoted just to the Bible, so apparently you can want a lot. Not only that, but they didn't have hardly any new atheism or science books that have been published in the last year or so - only new book I saw was Dawkins', which was on display next to the Atheists Delusion.

How the heck am I supposed to buy Christmas gifts for all of the heathen friends and family?!*

*And before someone comments about my whining, I really don't care. I just thought it was an interesting observation. I'll get my heathen fix from Amazon.