I believe my mom lived in Cullman and had me at a Jasper hospital. (I had to stay there a week, she drove to see me..which I know now was quite uneccesary but it's fine I'm alive) Her and her mom still live in Cullman. I am unsure where they are spiritually so I want to visit but there's a lot going on there... as a kid when we took road trips I would always "know when we got close to MeMe's because I smelled chicken houses" !!! May have changed now but yea. Childhood... !
I should read it again now that I am born again. I've enjoyed doing that with some things. I have only just been regenerate since 2011 (and was never introduced to/read / thought anything) of the Bible before then. So I haven't been able to stay out of it, and haven't been giving time to much else !
It is wise to know and understand what the world talks about. We see this from Paul clearly as he stands among idols even quotes their poets (writers?) ... "wise as serpents...harmless as doves"
There are many books written by Christians that are uplifting, of course not the same as the Bible. I heard a preacher say that when Sir Walter Scott was dying, he told his secretary to "fetch the book". His secretary wondered which one of his books the author wanted read to him. Scott told him, "When a man is dying, there is only ONE book."
And it is good to read things written by non Christians as a Christian. I was saved at twelve, so I naturally always read from a Christian's point of view from that age. There are many Christian themes in Dickens' books. In some classics, there are even conversions. For example, Defoe writes in Robinson Crusoe an episode where Crusoe reads a Bible and gets saved. It surprised me. Defoe was a Christian who wrote tracts, I found out later.
Yes, when Paul was preaching to the Greeks on Mars Hill, he noticed that the Greeks had idols consecrated to every possible god or goddess they could think of, and erected one to "the Unknown God", just to cover their bases. So, he told them about this unknown God. I can't imagine what it must have been like, to hear that sermon. Paul was highly educated, so I am sure he knew all about the gods and goddesses of Greece and Rome.
I haven't been to Cullman, that I know. I may have been through it, I'm not sure.