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Bible Labeled Fiction In This Store. Pastor Goes Viral (VIDEO)

November 21, 2013 By Egberto Willies

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Holy Bible Labeled Fiction

Costco Labels Bible Fiction

Is the bible fiction? Is it literal? Did Moses really part the sea? Some people really think that the stories in the Bible are just that, fictional stories. However, some really worship the Bible as the word of God. When in doubt, if one is selling Bibles, neutrality must reign, lest you incur the wrath of the offended.

A major chain found that out the hard way. They got national publicity. In a country that is 78.4% Christian, that is a dangerous mistake. Chick-fil-a can make a social mistake if it has some doctrinal backing in Christianity (implied or otherwise). The converse is not true.

Costco labeled the Bible as fictional in a Simi Valley store. A pastor saw it.

Caleb Kaltenbach, pastor of Discovery Church, came across the Bibles while shopping for a gift and tweeted the picture on Friday with the comment: “Costco has Bibles for sale under the genre of FICTION Hmmmm…”

That didn’t sit well with members of his congregation.

“I was completely offended. It’s wrong, and I believe that the Bible is real,” Shellie Dungan told KTLA-TV.

Did the pastor go to Costco to get a response? Apparently he went directly to social media. He likely knew that he could rile up a significant portion of the Christian base to get notoriety. And he did.

For all the brouhaha, Kaltenbach said the discussions the label has sparked have been good for the faith community.

“It’s caused a lot of controversy, it’s caused a lot of conversation, which I think conversation is good,” he told KCBS-TV.

I find it ironic that the pastor would go after a company like Costco. Costco treats its employees in a humane fashion by paying them a living wage and ensuring they have good benefits. Walmart stiffs its employees and pays them substandard wages while simulating support for family values. If the pastor wanted to do a Christian-like thing one would think he would be shaming Walmart into “doing unto others as they want done unto their shareholders.”

Costco says the mislabeling was a mistake by its distributor that they should have caught. Sadly, anyone who analyses this event should come to the conclusion that this pastor did an ‘un-Christian-like’ thing. He forgot about compassion.

Had he gone directly to a Costco manager, he could have found out it was a simple mistake. By publicizing it as he did, he allowed the most carnal emotions to be unleashed on Costco. He may have hurt the bottom line of the company that will affect many of its employees. Worse, he may have irreparably left a bad mark on the store’s manager that will follow that manager for life; So much for forgiveness.




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About Egberto Willies

Egberto Willies is a political activist, author, political blogger, radio show host, business owner, software developer, web designer, and mechanical engineer in Kingwood, TX. He is an ardent Liberal that believes tolerance is essential. His favorite phrase is “political involvement should be a requirement for citizenship”. Willies is currently a contributing editor to DailyKos, OpEdNews, and several other Progressive sites. He was a frequent contributor to HuffPost Live. He won the 2nd CNN iReport Spirit Award and was the Pundit of the Week.

Comments

  1. Harvey Gelder says

    November 21, 2013 at 11:26 AM

    Fiction! The truth will set you free…..http://www.rationalresponders.com/a_big_list_of_gods_but_nowhere_near_all_of_them

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  2. fred b. says

    November 21, 2013 at 11:56 AM

    Moses, not Noah, supposedly parted the sea.

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    • Egberto Willies says

      November 21, 2013 at 12:07 PM

      oops. You are so right.

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  3. Greg Jessup says

    November 21, 2013 at 12:26 PM

    I fully agree with Willies’ assessment of the situation. While I do not believe the Bible to be fiction (although it does contain stories, it is not wholly fiction), I do understand that people make mistakes. Perhaps to explain (do not read “to excuse”) what the pastor might have been thinking, I have run across apocryphal tales on some social media Q&A sites of Bibles being put in the fiction sections of libraries and bookstores; maybe this pastor had seen many of those and thought this store had mislabeled them on purpose. However, had he taken his complaint to the store manager personally, his complain would seem to have been quickly corrected. It is an unfortunate sign of our times that anyone would prefer to air this sort of thing on social media first. The pastor might have done well to remember this lesson from Matthew’s gospel (18:15): “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.”

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    • Harvey Gelder says

      November 21, 2013 at 3:48 PM

      The bible was not mislabeled. The pastor wanted to change the truthful label to fit his belief!

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  4. openlyblack says

    November 22, 2013 at 3:15 AM

    “Non-fiction” and “fiction” aren’t determined based on an individual’s (or a group’s) belief … those designations are a function of fact … no offense, but the bible IS fiction,

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