Friday, November 22, 2013

Costco apologises for labelling Bibles as fiction

Caleb Kaltenbach, lead pastor at the nondenominational Discovery Church in Simi Valley, California, said he was shocked to find the holy book had been relegated to the fiction section while shopping at a local Costco last Friday.



“I never, ever in my entire life had seen a Bible labelled as fiction,” Kaltenbach said. “I just took the picture. I think really what has been revealed is a larger conversation over faith. There are people who are passionate about their faith in Christ and passionate against it.”

Costco said in a statement that a “small percentage of the Bibles” were mislabelled by the distributor. “However, we take responsibility and should have caught the mistake,” the statement read. “We are correcting this with them for future distribution. In addition, we are immediately relabelling all mislabelled Bibles.”


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The pastor said he doesn’t hold the mistake against the store. “I love Costco,” he said. “I still plan to shop there a lot.”

5 comments:

Brixter said...

Try and do the same with that other holy book. >:-)

arbroath said...

I'm sure that would go down well.

Dunex said...

What else should it be labeled as, surely not science.

Ratz said...

They had to label it as fiction as the label wasn't long enough for "Some nice stories, but ultimately a load of old bollocks".

Anonymous said...

Mistake? What mistake?