Costco Bibles marked "fiction" on price tags

[mellenORL]

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-costco-labels-bible-fiction-20131120,0,2267292.story#axzz2lDDI0WOx
Megachurch pastor was shopping there and notices the tag details, posts a pic online, which starts a meltdown all over social media. Over a price sticker. Yay!
Oh please...Let this become a trend wherever bibbles tis sold.

[Sleepy]

Ha, that's amusing. People are so offended by any little thing that challenges their faith.

[Witchyjoshy]

Heh, sounds like someone's having fun.

Normally I'd say something like "Eh I think I'd prefer it go into mythology - same practical application as fiction, only the christopagans are happy" but really, I don't care.  It's a jab at Christianity, which I have a special loathing for out of all religions (Yes yes, I know, pagans are supposed to be tolerant of all religions, but then, I think we tend to get a little TOO tolerant at times to the point of bending over backwards to kiss up to Christians).

If I lived in an area where it was, say, Islam or Judaism trying to oppress people, I'm sure I'd have a special loathing for them.  But I think I'm entitled to this one biased viewpoint.

[Dakota Bob]

Well, they can't prove it's NOT fiction, so I don't see the problem

[Witchyjoshy]

Well, they can't prove it's NOT fiction, so I don't see the problem

I don't see it either.

Only reason I mention mythology is that mythology doesn't have to be fact to be productive.  In fact, I think Christianity (and Islam, and Judaism to a much lesser degree) tend to be among the few religions that actively demand that everything in their holy books have to be fact (in fact, I think one of the things about Buddhism is that the stories of the Buddha are just that - stories.)

Heck, a lot of Greek mythology was guys simply telling each other stories around a campfire, using gods as characters in their stories.

[Sigmaleph]

I once saw Maus sold in the humour section of a bookstore. That was disturbing.

This, however, is just funny.

[Flying Mint Bunny!]

This reminds me of one of Viz's Top Tips:

"BOOKSHOP OWNERS. Annoy Christians by putting the Bible in the 'Fiction' section of your shop where, joking aside, it actually belongs."

[Witchyjoshy]

I once saw Maus sold in the humour section of a bookstore. That was disturbing.

This, however, is just funny.

What if you had seen Also Spracht er, something in there?

[Vypernight]

Kaltenbach told Elisabeth Hasselbeck on Fox News the label "probably was a mistake, I have no idea." But, he added, the issue highlighted the fact that "we do need to be vocal about our faith.”

Compared to what?

[Witchyjoshy]

Really?  You can't walk down the street without being able to visually identify at least 10 Christians.

You can't walk through a city without being bombarded by at least one curb pastor trying to save your immortal soul.

You can't browse an internet comments section without at least 50 people whining about how they're the oppressed minority in America and how Democrats are trying to steal their faith (*cough*more like oppressive majority*cough*who is trying to steal other people's faith*cough*)

How much more vocal can you fucking get!?

[Raymond Dullaghy]

On the one hand, I'm kind of offended, considering the Bible is the holy book to me. On the other hand, I don't own that store, and even if I did, I'd file probably file all religious books under nonfiction.  There's more important things to worry about than a single store filing its books in a way you don't agree with.

[Stormwarden]

I once saw "Grave of the Fireflies" in the kids' section of the videostore (I'm so old). THAT was fun to explain to the parents of their traumatized kid...they later repeated the lesson with MD Geist.

[lord gibbon]

I once saw "Grave of the Fireflies" in the kids' section of the videostore (I'm so old). THAT was fun to explain to the parents of their traumatized kid...they later repeated the lesson with MD Geist.

Well, to be fair, no one should see MD Geist.

[Askold]

Back when I was a kid all anime was commonly in one category. Mom refused to buy Akira because it was in the same section as "Gigolo" and other hentai movies. And in school back when I was ten or so we watched Silver Fang during class. A horribly mangled and censured version of Silver Fang because it is so violent anime, but they still marketed it to kids 5+ because it is animated which obviously means it is a kids show. Even if you have to censor half the show due to all the blood and violence.

Now that I think about it, I should really watch the uncensored version someday. The version I have was so mangled that at one point character A is alive and well, talking to others, few seconds later he is lying in a pool of blood and dying. AND NO ONE EVER EXPLAINS HOW OR WHY THAT HAPPENED.

[KZN02]

Simi Valley? I know that Costco, I go there a lot.