Father's Day; A Bible for Your Dad?

Like every holiday of memorable event, some Christian operatives are trying to tie the faith to Father's Day. They are doing it with the 250th, marriage, births, deaths and whatever and wherever they can. 

Father's Day is an interesting one because the Bible is full of men with many wives and countless children. Some of the great males in the Bible would not have been able to name all the children he fathered. A Christian site made a valiant effort to paint some Biblical characters as fine father figures.

From what one reads, there is an increase in church attendance of single young men, not married fathers. Women are leaving the faith more rapidly than men. Perhaps there is the thinking by some in Christian management positions its future is in men, not women, and marketing should emphasize men.

Of course, the faith has emphasized men with male-only clergy in many parts. If ever there was a place where men are important just by being born male, it is in the Catholic, Missouri Lutheran and Southern Baptists. I don't understand the marketing strategy of treating half the population as substandard. 

In years past, a running joke was that one gave dad a tie for Father's Day, a tie for Christmas and for his birthday. Ties are not as popular today. The option is a Bible. Today, however, people read scripture on their phones, if they read it at all. Surveys find people don't do that much either.

If your dead is an atheist, you might consider a case of beer. This will not provide definite answers to the great questions of life and death, but your dad will be mellow while thinking about them. My own children might consider this.