FTFA: I have just been informed that Sam's Club is pulling 'The Brick Bible' from the shelves of all of their retail locations nationwide due to the complaints of a handful of people that it is vulgar and violent

So when do we start banning regular bibles on these grounds?

Looks like I'm gonna have to write more complaints

The Revelations section is pure win.

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"the book was pulled after an unspecified small number of complaints had been made by Sam's Club customers that the book is vulgar and violent, and that the author is an atheist."

That part bothers me more than any other. What do the author's personal beliefs have to do with anything, let alone rationalising removing his book from sale?

Gordon Bennett: That part bothers me more than any other. What do the author's personal beliefs have to do with anything, let alone rationalising removing his book from sale?

Because we all know atheists always stoop to unscrupulous methods such as using the quotes or text of Christian things against them. Quoting all of The Bible isn't fair because Christians don't listen to all of The Bible, at least not publicly.

Gordon Bennett: "the book was pulled after an unspecified small number of complaints had been made by Sam's Club customers that the book is vulgar and violent, and that the author is an atheist."

That part bothers me more than any other. What do the author's personal beliefs have to do with anything, let alone rationalising removing his book from sale?

The book is clearly a parody. Sam's and WalMart seem to like to appeal to more "traditional", "Christian", "family-oriented" customers. In other words: people who would be offended by its content.

Was merely a merchandising decision, I think. Still, I may have to order a copy from Amazon. Looks pretty darn amusing.

The book IS vulgar and violent. It's the bible.

There's nothing like free advertising during a busy shopping season.

Rincewind53: [www.thebricktestament.com image 640x480]
Leviticus 18:22
'Do not have sex with a man as you would with a woman. It is an abomination.'

/I love how happy they look in that picture. Also, that they chose the LEGO guy with the beard to be the top.

Not that it's certain or anything,, but you just might be a very very strange person. Food for thought.

Jesus saves, and so can you, shop at Sam's Club

So she doesn't have a problem with the passages or teachings or vulgarity or violence, just that it's being depicted in a book using Lego figures? Have I got it right?

Presumably she is part of the same group that wants to sanitise all the liberalness out of the bible too.

Genital injury was hilarious.... well, as funny as a genital injury can be.

Obviously a parody.

Dijon Ketchup: Antagonism: FTFA: I have just been informed that Sam's Club is pulling 'The Brick Bible' from the shelves of all of their retail locations nationwide due to the complaints of a handful of people that it is vulgar and violent

So when do we start banning regular bibles on these grounds?

Please???

Why would you want to do that, cowboy?

theBigBigEye: Dijon Ketchup: Antagonism: FTFA: I have just been informed that Sam's Club is pulling 'The Brick Bible' from the shelves of all of their retail locations nationwide due to the complaints of a handful of people that it is vulgar and violent

So when do we start banning regular bibles on these grounds?

Please???

Why would you want to do that, cowboy?

It's offensive to many.

And Sam's Club shows they're part of what's wrong with America and American businesses.

WhyteRaven74: And Sam's Club shows they're part of what's wrong with America and American businesses.

Don't they own WalMart?

AbbeySomeone: Don't they own WalMart?

Well WalMart owns Sam's Club and I could've been more general saying Walmart is showing they're part of what's wrong.

phenn: The Revelations section is pure win.

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Pipl and related web searches return a surprising amount about this complainer.

AbbeySomeone: theBigBigEye: Dijon Ketchup: Antagonism: FTFA: I have just been informed that Sam's Club is pulling 'The Brick Bible' from the shelves of all of their retail locations nationwide due to the complaints of a handful of people that it is vulgar and violent

So when do we start banning regular bibles on these grounds?

Please???

Why would you want to do that, cowboy?

It's offensive to many.

Aaaaaand?

AbbeySomeone: theBigBigEye: Dijon Ketchup: Antagonism: FTFA: I have just been informed that Sam's Club is pulling 'The Brick Bible' from the shelves of all of their retail locations nationwide due to the complaints of a handful of people that it is vulgar and violent

So when do we start banning regular bibles on these grounds?

Please???

Why would you want to do that, cowboy?

It's offensive to many.

That's no more of a reason to ban the "print only" bible than it is to ban the lego bible. Banning books is bad with almost no exceptions.

What, religious people deciding what others can do/buy/sell/think?

That's a first.

Ycarus: AbbeySomeone: theBigBigEye: Dijon Ketchup: Antagonism: FTFA: I have just been informed that Sam's Club is pulling 'The Brick Bible' from the shelves of all of their retail locations nationwide due to the complaints of a handful of people that it is vulgar and violent

So when do we start banning regular bibles on these grounds?

Please???

Why would you want to do that, cowboy?

It's offensive to many.

That's no more of a reason to ban the "print only" bible than it is to ban the lego bible. Banning books is bad with almost no exceptions.

Yeah, especially those people who agree with you, but then go, "except ban that one. Oh, and that one. Aaaaand that one too. ......But that REALLY offensive one gets a pass, because *at least* it's not those other books I want banned! HA HA!"

theBigBigEye: Ycarus: AbbeySomeone: theBigBigEye: Dijon Ketchup: Antagonism: FTFA: I have just been informed that Sam's Club is pulling 'The Brick Bible' from the shelves of all of their retail locations nationwide due to the complaints of a handful of people that it is vulgar and violent

So when do we start banning regular bibles on these grounds?

Please???

Why would you want to do that, cowboy?

It's offensive to many.

That's no more of a reason to ban the "print only" bible than it is to ban the lego bible. Banning books is bad with almost no exceptions.

Yeah, especially those people who agree with you, but then go, "except ban that one. Oh, and that one. Aaaaand that one too. ......But that REALLY offensive one gets a pass, because *at least* it's not those other books I want banned! HA HA!"

Well, unless a publication explicitly breaks the law (and I mean universally, like child porn) it should NOT be banned. If I find a book offensive, then I won't read it, that doesn't mean I have the right to dictate who can.

Of course this is an instance of a private corporation deciding to not sell the book, which, while within their rights, is an example of a "loophole" in the idea of free press. Since it takes money and usually the backing of one of the large publishing companies, plus the desire of retail outlets to sell it, censorship can be a legal thing if enough of the people in that chain decide to do so.

Ycarus: theBigBigEye: Ycarus: AbbeySomeone: theBigBigEye: Dijon Ketchup: Antagonism: FTFA: I have just been informed that Sam's Club is pulling 'The Brick Bible' from the shelves of all of their retail locations nationwide due to the complaints of a handful of people that it is vulgar and violent

So when do we start banning regular bibles on these grounds?

Please???

Why would you want to do that, cowboy?

It's offensive to many.

That's no more of a reason to ban the "print only" bible than it is to ban the lego bible. Banning books is bad with almost no exceptions.

Yeah, especially those people who agree with you, but then go, "except ban that one. Oh, and that one. Aaaaand that one too. ......But that REALLY offensive one gets a pass, because *at least* it's not those other books I want banned! HA HA!"

Well, unless a publication explicitly breaks the law (and I mean universally, like child porn) it should NOT be banned. If I find a book offensive, then I won't read it, that doesn't mean I have the right to dictate who can.

Of course this is an instance of a private corporation deciding to not sell the book, which, while within their rights, is an example of a "loophole" in the idea of free press. Since it takes money and usually the backing of one of the large publishing companies, plus the desire of retail outlets to sell it, censorship can be a legal thing if enough of the people in that chain decide to do so.

They've helped sales more by letting this go public. I refuse to shop WalMart or Sam's Club but I will order a copy of this book just for kicks. It will make a lovely gift for those that are hard to shop for.

Terrapin Bound: AbbeySomeone: I refuse to shop WalMart or Sam's Club

Why? Is it snobbery, or merely the poor service? Or maybe it's a principled stand you're taking?

'cause truly it's hard to beat when you need certain staples. Can you not overlook the mouthbreathers long enough to make a simple purchase?

All of that and then some.

Terrapin Bound: Why? Is it snobbery, or merely the poor service? Or maybe it's a principled stand you're taking?

'cause truly it's hard to beat when you need certain staples. Can you not overlook the mouthbreathers long enough to make a simple purchase?

Personally, after I went to Arkansas and realized that all the money we're sending them isn't doing a whit of good, I decided to try and keep it in my own community as much as possible.

AbbeySomeone: Ycarus: theBigBigEye: Ycarus: AbbeySomeone: theBigBigEye: Dijon Ketchup: Antagonism: FTFA: I have just been informed that Sam's Club is pulling 'The Brick Bible' from the shelves of all of their retail locations nationwide due to the complaints of a handful of people that it is vulgar and violent

So when do we start banning regular bibles on these grounds?

Please???

Why would you want to do that, cowboy?

It's offensive to many.

That's no more of a reason to ban the "print only" bible than it is to ban the lego bible. Banning books is bad with almost no exceptions.

Yeah, especially those people who agree with you, but then go, "except ban that one. Oh, and that one. Aaaaand that one too. ......But that REALLY offensive one gets a pass, because *at least* it's not those other books I want banned! HA HA!"

Well, unless a publication explicitly breaks the law (and I mean universally, like child porn) it should NOT be banned. If I find a book offensive, then I won't read it, that doesn't mean I have the right to dictate who can.

Of course this is an instance of a private corporation deciding to not sell the book, which, while within their rights, is an example of a "loophole" in the idea of free press. Since it takes money and usually the backing of one of the large publishing companies, plus the desire of retail outlets to sell it, censorship can be a legal thing if enough of the people in that chain decide to do so.

They've helped sales more by letting this go public. I refuse to shop WalMart or Sam's Club but I will order a copy of this book just for kicks. It will make a lovely gift for those that are hard to shop for.

I'll admit, the demographic that buys their books from Sam's club or Walmart don't exactly lend themselves to the kind of humor this book presents.

If it were my business, I'd simply tell the customer that if they didn't like it, they didn't have to read it and that they were welcome to either buy something else or leave. Believe me, you don't want customers that think it's their right to tell you how to run your business.

That's not to say that customers aren't important and that you shouldn't give customer complaints their due consideration, but complaints have a spectrum, ranging from currently discussed complaint that can probably be ignored to things like filthy bathrooms, or rude employees, which should be addressed.

I take pride in the fact that my ancestors nailed Jesus to his cross and stuck him with their spear. Not that I believe the event ever took place, TBH.

NORAD tracking Santa is a more plausible story to me than the Christ myth.

Im all for the concept of breaking the bible down and illustrating it to a younger audience in an eccentric manner, but why potentially mess up a good thing by putting in questonable/lewd scenes in a book which will obviously be percieved as for children?

Did he really not anticipate the hell he'll get, or is he just being one of those edgy atheist trolls and isn't taking the whole bible concept seriously atfer all? Either way, block head move.

The part that kills me is that she saw the book, thought it might be cool, and instead of just flipping through it, went home and researched it/the author on the internet. She's not even objecting to the book, she's objecting to the author's website. The explicit content she's all up in arms about was deliberately left out of the book.

Baron Von Supercock: I take pride in the fact that my ancestors nailed Jesus to his cross and stuck him with their spear. Not that I believe the event ever took place, TBH.

NORAD tracking Santa is a more plausible story to me than the Christ myth.

and staffs turning into snakes, burning bushes, and people living to the age of 700 are more plausible?

sam's club can do what they want. in the end, probably everyone wins. they may get a few more customers who are glad that they're not caving in to the "atheist agenda", and the lego bible guy may get a few extra internet sales (i for one did not know that he also had books, i suppose i naively assumed he only had a net presence)

Easy_Like_Sunday_Mornin': Im all for the concept of breaking the bible down and illustrating it to a younger audience in an eccentric manner, but why potentially mess up a good thing by putting in questonable/lewd scenes in a book which will obviously be percieved as for children?

Did he really not anticipate the hell he'll get, or is he just being one of those edgy atheist trolls and isn't taking the whole bible concept seriously atfer all? Either way, block head move.

Just realized the questionable material was on the WEBSITE and he IS an atheist(Farking too early at work). Okay he's fine I guess, but why have that crap on the website in the first place when trying to promote a CHRISTIAN themed product? Plus being an atheist the guy is pinning his own kick me sign on his back.

I'm more upset that Cnet pluralized "Lego" as "Legos". The plural of Lego is still just Lego. I won't be supporting their website until they fix this! I demand satisfaction!

Apparently selling the bible is fine with wally. Selling sex is not.

Easy_Like_Sunday_Mornin': Easy_Like_Sunday_Mornin': Im all for the concept of breaking the bible down and illustrating it to a younger audience in an eccentric manner, but why potentially mess up a good thing by putting in questonable/lewd scenes in a book which will obviously be percieved as for children?

Did he really not anticipate the hell he'll get, or is he just being one of those edgy atheist trolls and isn't taking the whole bible concept seriously atfer all? Either way, block head move.

Just realized the questionable material was on the WEBSITE and he IS an atheist(Farking too early at work). Okay he's fine I guess, but why have that crap on the website in the first place when trying to promote a CHRISTIAN themed product? Plus being an atheist the guy is pinning his own kick me sign on his back.

I'm thinking that the author isn't trying to promote this as christian material, not in the serious christian sense. I'm pretty sure it is a parody, most likely to illustrate how crazy it is to believe the bible as reality or as moral.

"the book was pulled after an unspecified small number of complaints had been made by Sam's Club customers that the book is vulgar and violent, and that the author is an atheist."


I know a lot of atheists that are better Christians than the Christians.