Costco "mislabels" bible as fiction

[Anonymous]

They actually apologized. I wonder what they relabeled it as.
http://www.webpronews.com/costco-sorry-for-putting-bible-in-fiction-aisle-2013-11

[Anonymous]

For a book to be fiction, the authors intent must be to fabricate a story. Many historical texts are inaccurate and wrong, yet they are not fiction because they were written with the intention of explaining the world as it was seen at that time. The intention was not create an inaccurate, fabricated story. The Bible falls into the same category of historical texts. There is no evidence that the authors of the Bible set out to intentionally fabricate a story.

[Anonymous]

sounds about right

[Anonymous]

Weird, I thought it was a gossip mag....you know, all that tea about who was married to who, who punished their kids, what leader was invading what town...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For a book to be fiction, the authors intent must be to fabricate a story. Many historical texts are inaccurate and wrong, yet they are not fiction because they were written with the intention of explaining the world as it was seen at that time. The intention was not create an inaccurate, fabricated story. The Bible falls into the same category of historical texts. There is no evidence that the authors of the Bible set out to intentionally fabricate a story.

But there is also no evidence that they didn't fabricate a story.

[Anonymous]

Related (although such a sticker would likely not be limited to only the Bible)

[Anonymous]

I knew someone would create a thread about this! I wonder if someone at Costco did that on purpose.

[Anonymous]

Weird. But so is Barnes and Noble listing the author of the King James Bible as God.

[Anonymous]

Oh for heaven's sake. This is the kind of oversensitivity and dramatizing of meaningless kerfuffles that gives religious people a bad name. Next we will be hearing that this is a plot to eliminate Christmas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: I knew someone would create a thread about this! I wonder if someone at Costco did that on purpose.

For what purpose?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I knew someone would create a thread about this! I wonder if someone at Costco did that on purpose.

For what purpose?

They are more educated in general at Costco versus Sam's Club. I imagine Joel Osteen is in heavy rotation on the book table over there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: I knew someone would create a thread about this! I wonder if someone at Costco did that on purpose.

I don't know about "on purpose," so much as just labeling truthfully.

[Anonymous]

Like obamas birth certificate !

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Like obamas birth certificate !

YEAH AND THE MOON LANDING!!!111!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh for heaven's sake. This is the kind of oversensitivity and dramatizing of meaningless kerfuffles that gives religious people a bad name. Next we will be hearing that this is a plot to eliminate Christmas.

I assumed OP is an atheist. The inflammatory remarks on thi thread te coming from atheists, too.