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Costco -- the Bible is fiction
foxnews.com ^ | 11/18/2013 | Todd Starnes

Posted on 11/18/2013 6:54:48 PM PST by massmike

What do the Bible, "The Hunger Games" and "Fifty Shades of Grey" have in common? All three are works of fiction, according to the booksellers at Costco.

Pastor Caleb Kaltenbach made that shocking discovery last Friday as he was shopping for a present for his wife at a Costco in Simi Valley, Calif. “All the Bibles were labeled as fiction,” the pastor told me. “It seemed bizarre to me.” Kaltenbach is the lead pastor at Discovery Church, a non-denominational Christian congregation in southern California.

He thought there must be some sort of mistake so he scoured the shelf for other Bibles. Every copy was plastered with a sticker that read, “$14.99 Fiction.” The pastor knew something must be amiss so he set off in search of a Costco employee hoping for an answer.

Unfortunately, he couldn’t find anyone willing to answer his question (which is not all that surprising if you’ve shopped at Costco).

I doubt they would label the Koran as fiction, Pastor Kaltenbach said. Heaven help us if they did.

So does the warehouse store that sells laundry detergent by the gallon have a problem with the Word of God? I called Costco headquarters in Issaquah, Wash. hoping to get answers. The nice lady who answered the phone told me she was aware of the issue and chalked it up to a “human error at a warehouse.” “It’s all fixed,” she said. But actually, it’s not fixed – because there’s a boatload of Bibles in the Simi Valley store still marked as fiction. At that point, the nice lady on the phone became not-so-nice and promptly informed me that Costco doesn’t talk to the press.

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Religion
KEYWORDS: bible; biblegodsword; costco; fiction; godsword; lastdays; retail
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To: SkyDancer
Find a bunch of ‘fiction’ stickers and start plastering the Koran with them. Let’s see what happens

Find a bunch of ‘pornagrahy’ stickers and start plastering the Koran with them. Let’s see what happens

61 posted on 09/05/2014 9:37:51 AM PDT by Focault's Pendulum (I live in NJ....' Nuff said!)
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To: massmike

Costco is fiction.


62 posted on 09/05/2014 9:39:57 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Focault's Pendulum

Right now I’m plastering our town buses with my own made Israeli flags - they’re running these Free Palestinian ads. I just back up to one and plant a flag sticker on them.


63 posted on 09/05/2014 3:40:42 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: BwanaNdege
I am a Catholic priest."

so was Luther...

64 posted on 09/05/2014 7:21:04 PM PDT by terycarl (common sense prevails over all else)
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To: editor-surveyor
Costco book tables are stacked with unlabeled boxes of books of all kinds, and the only sticker on any of them is the price (lowest in town).

NOT TRUE

See if you can find a price on Dineesh DeSousa's book.

Costco took it off its tables because it was a conservative book and the president is a flaming liberal. Finally when forced they returned it (2 months later) they won't put a price on it. Costco knows from years of experience that items with no price don't sell. Draw your own conclusions about costo

65 posted on 09/05/2014 7:25:45 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: editor-surveyor
The price tage are affixed automatically by the machinery that packages the books.

NO.

Not to all books. Dinesh deSousa's book was banned from Costco. When people threatened to quit their membership they backed down. They put the book back on the shelves but they refuse to put a price on it. Reason: items with no price don't sell. Their CEO is a liberal.

66 posted on 09/05/2014 7:30:10 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane

Their CEO is a terrorist.


67 posted on 09/05/2014 7:32:55 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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