Atheist Making A Fortune From Selling Bibles

[anotojefiremnesuka]

“What if you sold Harry Potter books or Lord of the Rings books, but you told people it was real? And you told people if they would just learn how to write spells themselves, they could heal their children? And if you sold that as a real thing? I would feel terrible about that. But that’s really the situation I am in selling the bible. I am selling this thing I truly believe is fiction.”

http://www.inquisitr.com/1921336/atheist-making-a-fortune-from-selling-bibles-says-the-money-is-too-good-to-be-true/
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Damn wish I had thought of that!

[merrily]

1. He is openly atheist and selling a Bible app that makes him a lot of money.

I don't see this as the same kind of story as an evangelist exploiting believers while living a life that is inconsistent with what he or she directs others to do, ostensibly under an anointing from God.

It's more like a bookstore that doesn't believe in witchcraft selling Harry Potter books because they are big moneymakers for the bookstore.

Is anyone under the illusion that everyone who has sold a cross or a Star of David in Israel was/is a devout Christian or a devout Jew? Ditto for everyone who has sold Bibles or Korans?

[anotojefiremnesuka]

2. I would venture to guess that the more pious of the faithful

are under the illusion that those flogging religious products are believers just like them.

[merrily]

3. Then they are silly, IMO. It's one thing to ascribe a certain lifestyle to a preacher.

It's another to ascribe it to a peddler of Vatican or "holy land" souvenirs. But, this guy is openly atheist. No sense at all ascribing anything but an atheism to him.

[anotojefiremnesuka]

6. It is the same mindset that baking a cake for a same sex wedding is going to

condemn them to eternal damnation.

Yes very silly indeed.

[merrily]

7. I don't know that bakeries are making that claim.

However, I have no desire to even appear to defend those bakeries, so I'll stop that train of thought right there.

Those bakeries are hypocrites. Do they clear their customers for other things they consider sins? Stealing? Bearing false witness against a neighbor? Coveting a neighbor's spouse? And so on?

[anotojefiremnesuka]

8. IDK ask the owners who do think that way

I agree they are hypocrites

[merrily]

9. No, I won't ask them about what you say their objection/thinking is.

In fact, I won't ask those turds about anything.

If I were going to ask anyone about your statement, I'd ask you, but I won't do that, either. I will simply say again that I have never seen that specific claim made by a bakery that has refused to bake a cake for a GLBT wedding. IOW, you have stated their alleged objection in a way that I have not seen any of them state it.

And, as my prior post said, I would like to leave it at that, esp. since this thread is not even about that.

[anotojefiremnesuka]

10. Here's one that has been in the news lately

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2013/1207/Colo.-judge-orders-Christian-baker-to-bake-gay-wedding-cake.-Will-he-say-no-video

If you are interested to understand the mindset, there are plenty of other examples in the news too

Personally I do know now any butcher, bakers, and candle stick makers who are denying service to LGBT people but they are out there if all the news reports and law suites are true.

[merrily]

12. That does not say the baker believed he would be doomed to eternal damnation if he baked them a cake

I am familiar with the refusals and the reasons they give. So far, I have not heard or read of one that says they believe they will go to hell or be damned for eternity if they bake the cake. Nor did the baker at your source say that.

[anotojefiremnesuka]

15. I think you miss the point all together. Good Day

[Warren Stupidity]

13. "a bookstore that doesn't believe in witchcraft selling Harry Potter books"

uh no. Essentially nobody believes that the Harry Potter books describe real events, it is almost universally understood that they are works of fiction. So this is not at all analogous to the bible, which book is thought by millions to not be a work of fiction. While you and I and the subject of the op might agree that the bible is of course a work of fiction, there is something a bit off with an atheist peddling this crap to the believers, it borders on fraud and seems more analogous to a snake-oil salesman peddling bogus remedies knowing full well that they are nonsense.

[merrily]

14. Valid, but scratch Harry Potter and substitute books on wicca sold by people who do not follow that

religion or believe in any of its tenets. (meaning no disrespect to that religion).

Bookstores sell all kinds of books covering things some people believe in, but the bookseller might not believe it.

[Warren Stupidity]

16. fair enough.

[muriel_volestrangler]

18. Why fraud? He's selling a system for reading and listening to a book

He's not saying "this will make you a better person" or "this will save your soul". He's not saying "this is a better guide to life than the works of Bertrand Russell". He saying "here's a convenient way to get the information from the bible".

Is a publisher that publishes sacred texts from more than one religion bordering on committing fraud, in your eyes?

[Warren Stupidity]

19. Are you sure his advertising is not making any such claims?

AFAIC anyone peddling religion is in the region of fraud.

[greatlaurel]

4. Very interesting article.

Thanks for posting.

[CK_John]

5. An atheist has got to do what an atheist gotta do.

[Thor_MN]

11. PT Barnum

[hatrack]

17. Darwin bless him!

[no_hypocrisy]

20. This is how it's done . . . .

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

21. "The bible is a book with some beautiful poetry, a blood stained history, a wealth of obscenity..

and upwards of 10,000 lies." Mark Twain

[Islandurp]

22. I would've kept that hidden a bit longer.