Excellent zinger on Costco book placement.

[Scuba]

Many people profess to be upset after a Costco store near Los Angeles accidentally put the Bible in their fiction section. Of course in Texas that's probably where Costco puts their science books.

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[sheshe2]

1. Thanks, Scuba~

So true!

[BlueStreak]

2. Well seriously, what category SHOULD they have used?

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All but the most insane fundamentalists acknowledge that the Bible is some combination of historical fact (that may have been well twisted through hundreds of translation and editing cycles) amid lots and lots of allegory.

If a book contains stories that are acknowledged to be made up, even if the book is largely based on real historical figures, places and events, we call that fiction.

We certainly can't call it non-fiction.

I guess they could have created a new category called "Books - other".

[Scuba]

3. Fantasy?

[Ace Acme]

4. New Age/Occult

[backscatter712]

5. Mythology n/t

[BlueStreak]

12. That's OK by me, but I'm thinking the same people might object to that.

[Ilsa]

6. Religion. nt

[Vashta Nerada]

8. Fiction is apropos.

[LanternWaste]

9. I kinda thought the Dewey Decimal System was very accurate and efficient in its organization

I kinda thought the Dewey Decimal System was very accurate and efficient in its organization. It gave the 200-range to all religions and philosophies.

Even the 800-range (great literature-- including classics such as the Epic of Gilgamesh and The Ilyiad) seems an apt place for it.

On the other hand, I'm not trying to minimize of trivialize the beliefs of other people, so take it as you wish...

[Curmudgeoness]

7. Don't they have a "religion" section?

Good gravy, this is not rocket science.

With that said, it is quite obvious that this was intentional.

[Dopers_Greed]

10. Costco is not a bookstore

Their system is not set-up to handle complex categorizing. I'm surprised they even bother with dividing Fiction and Non-fiction up.

[blkmusclmachine]

11. Shows you how sound the Buybull beaters are in their religion, to have such thin skins and always on

the lookout for "the next thing to become enraged about." It's like when they had a sh!t-fit over George Michael's song "I Want Your Sex." Just anything to call attention to themselves. They're either attention whores, or have the biggest f/cking chips on their shoulders EVER. Sick of their sh!t! They're always there to p!ss in someone else's cornflakes.

[livingwagenow]

13. 'Create' a new section: Regurgitated Mythology of Horus.

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