My four month old niece is being baptized on Sunday, and along with my wife I wanted to get her a bible. On looking in the local store, I found a very small, almost non existent stock of bibles on the shelf. Just one, for a young child. What a sign of the times though, the bible was on the same shelf as, `The Witches Bible` `The Witches book of spells and Rituals` along with many other occult books What does it say about people of today, when the True Word of the Bible is sidelined like this, and in a main street book store.
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Funny, last time I was in B&N, there was a whole separate section for bibles and the pagan/wiccan/eastern books were all a few rows over in their own section.
I call lying for jebus on this one. That or you're in the wrong section.
That's just fair and impartial treatment, and sane people appreciate it. Of course, people who formerly enjoyed unfairly advantageous, preferential treatment by most of society tend to have a hard time adjusting.
Yes, in a regular store! That is intended for all kinds of regular people! Who'd of thunk it, right?
It's true that many mainstream bookstores have relatively small selections of Bibles and other Christian books, but that's usually because there's a Christian specialty store around that they can't compete with. They make up for it by appealing to everyone else, which is a pretty big group. The Rapture Readians' whole deal revolves around the idea that they're an oppressed micro-minority anyway, does it not?
"The witches bible was at a store, regular store?!!"
Well, you don't have to buy it.
What does it say about people of today, when the True Word of the Bible is sidelined like this, and in a main street book store.
It says that pretty much anuone woh want's a bible already has one.
The witches bible was at a store, regular store?!!
So? Last time I checked this was still a free country where a bookstore could sell whatever the hell they please. You are having culture shock from re-entering the real world where christians don't rule over everyone else. I can give you the number of a good psychiatrist.
Our local Borders has a whole bookcase full of them, in every version you could want, including several different languages.
What a sign of the times though, the bible was on the same shelf as, `The Witches Bible`
Sounds logical to me - put all the books on religious mythology together.
They don't mean what you think they mean. I call my Writer's Manual book my Writer's Bible, and I call The Vampire Lestat, "The Vampire Bible"
Engineers have loads of bibles, most famously the "Rubber Bible," which I believe is now several volumes larger than the real bible (And fundies assert that their own book is all you need to understand reality!). Other engineering bibles include Horowitz & Hill, Knuth, K&R, The Camel Book ... the list goes on.
I don't think this person was shopping at a Barnes & Noble, or at any other bookstore.
They were in a regular store ... probably a Wal*Mart or even a Safeway. They tend to have 1 or 2 aisles of books, consisting primarily of paperback bestsellers. Bibles, if they have any, will usually be of the "pop-up illustrated trendy-bible-of-the-month" variety, and will often use a loose feel-good translation like the "The Book" translation. And, yes, they'll be alongside books about Wicca and Angels.
What a sign of the times though, the bible was on the same shelf as, `The Witches Bible`
Did you notice the sign above the aisle saying "Fiction"?
"The witches bible was at a store, regular store?!! "
They're both books on religion, so why are you knickers in a knot? Ohhh, because only YOUR religion counts, or rates bookshelf space.
She's only four months old? Buy her The Silmarillion instead. It's just as readable as the Bible but somewhat more internally consistent, and she's far more likely to want to read it from beginning to end by the age of eighteen.
It's also unlikely to make her want to kill anyone, even Orcs.
The Borders store I sometimes go to has a whole bookshelf devoted to Bibles and Christian apologetics books. Not that I went there when I was religious. I went to one of serveral local Christian bookstores, like most people who don't want to be gouged on prices go. I wonder why they tried to use a mainstream store in the first place.
Also, it's funny that they are against this when these are usually conservatives who worship the free market. So they only like it when it supports freedoms to be religious assholes, and oppose it when it supports the freedoms of businesses to supply non-religious books that sell better? Nice double standard you got there.
I can one up that.
Mom and I were in the bookstore near our house and we were browsing the fantasy section. I found something in there that someone had evidently picked up, decided not to buy, and put down anywhere, but it was bloody hilarious - because the book they'd put down was the Bible.
True story, too.
Must've been a -very- small bookstore you went to. I went looking this last week in two separate stores and both had shelves upon shelves of different kinds of regular bibles (except the kind I was interested in, of course). Of course, both stores being on the mid- to large size they have a separate section for things like that, along with "speculation" (i.e. crap, like books on 2012) and cryptozoology. That said, you'd probably disagree with the printing of half the bibles in those sections too.
DLG: "I found something in there that someone had evidently picked up, decided not to buy, and put down anywhere, but it was bloody hilarious - because the book they'd put down was the Bible."
If it were accidental that would indeed be quite funny, but that's often done on purpose, either by bookstore visitors, or on occasion bookstore employees.
Personally I've given up on physical bookstores, they just don't carry what I'm interested in.
Try Amazon, Chapters or a more specific book vendor.
"The witches bible was at a store, regular store?!!
Maybe witches are regular people, so they would go to regular store.
Forget the Bible, give the kid money, she's going to need it in this economy :)
1. Small stock =/= nonexistent
2. There may be a book titled "The Witch's Bible" but there is no such thing as a bible or particular holy book for witches, wiccans or pagans. We don't roll that way. What you stumbled across was a marketing ploy, but you are so stupid and uninformed that you took it seriously.
Yeah, well sometimes I'm upset when I find Christopher Paolini shelved next to Terry Pratchett, but I know that there is something called a logical order of shelving so people can easily find books...
...what am I saying, we're talking about fundies here. "Logic" is not in their standard vocabulary...especially not when they feel the need to break out the Mountain-Out-of-Dust-Speck Persecution Card.
I found a very small, almost non existent stock of bibles on the shelf.
Just one, for a young child.
when the True Word of the Bible
Ummm... maybe you could go to a Christian store and get her a Bible?
Sorry but most mainstream stores have a relatively small Bible section and it doesn't have anything to do with "persecuting" Christians
This is something that I have always wondered:
Children's bibles typically only contain the most palatable parts of the regular bible, mainly focusing on the love that God and Jesus have for all of creation. As such, they omit large portions of the bible that deal with issues that aren't so child-friendly. Isn't this paring-down of the bible against what the final chapter of Revelation teaches? According to the bible, aren't people who make children's bibles going to hell?
Oh bullshit! The Witches' Bible wasn't next to the Holy Bible. Every Borders and Barnes and Nobles I've been to have seperate sections for those books. All occult books are usually in the New Age section. They are never in with religion. Quit being so fucking dramatic! Your just upset because the store is even selling a book called the Witches Bible. If it were up to you I'm sure that the only place that book, and all the other non-christian books, would be is in a bonfire.
So..........It was with other religion literature? How dare they! How dare they have the right to read these books, open their minds and buy them! How dare they have the first amendment!
Oh, NO! Not a book on an alternative RELIGION!!! What is the world COMING TO?!
Jesus Christ, they must have been at the EVIL B&N, or something. (SRSLY, they're evil, have you seen the prices of new books? I buy used for a reason.)
Yeah, go into a Barnes and noble.. you will usually find a small section of science books tucked off into the back, and mixed in with Creationist crap.. than you will find two SLAM FULL rows of the bible in every type you can imagine.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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