Free Bibles
Found On: Atlanta Craigslist
I have a few King James bibles to give away for free. I don’t believe in that stuff anymore, so if you know of someone who can use these, you’re welcome to them. If they aren’t gone by Sunday, they’re going to the recycling bin in the sky.
It’s sad to see someone lose her faith, but the picture tells the story. The ongoing recession of ’08 is bad, but it’s not the only downturn the country has faced in the past decade. When the great Beanie Baby Crash of ’99 came along, hitting collectors like a ton of stuffed toy bricks, people like this poster lost their shirts. Those bears above the bibles? There was a time in ’98 when they were worth over a thousand bucks apiece. Retirement was planned. A modest one, to be sure – to a creekfront home in North Dakota – but it was a future, all the same.
All good things end, all bubbles burst, and the bears? Well, their stock plunged like . . . well, like pretty much every stock did just recently. The kids were even allowed to play with them.
We spoke to her: “Eventually, the deposit on the cabin was lost, and my faith went with it. Sure, bad things happen to good people, but when it gets this bad, well, what do you expect? If my green bear won’t even bring 50 cents at a yard sale, you’re not convincing me there’s a God.”
You think God should help you with the deposit on your Cabin? Hell, look what he did to his own son for christ sakes!
Yeah, god’s a bit of a jerk.
I think there’s a reason why Job is the oldest book of the Bible. If there is a personal God, in contrast to “the force,” then he won’t mechanically dispense goodies on demand to goodie-two-shoes in proportion to their niceness.
The Job story has the Devil claiming that Job would curse God in response to misfortune. It seems the Devil would have had better luck had he chosen this Beanie Baby collector.
Why pick on North Dakota? If he was posting this on craigslist Atlanta, he’s really not tough enough to make it up here. And Job didn’t curse God, he demanded God answer for His punishment of Man on earth. In the end, after God’s defense of Himself, Job worshipped God again, and Satan retreted in defeat.
I think it is funny that they are giving away the King James version. Does anyone realize that there are a bunch of Catholicism books on the shelf? The Catholics do not use the King James version of the bible, maybe the poster just changed churches. But then I am using logic and then fun of the website is that most posters don’t use logic. (who wants old hair brushes?!?!)
Did they get these from hotels?
I hate how this site is so religious ‘It’s sad to see someone lose her faith’? It’s good people get over this invisibly sky daddy nonesense
@celox
They seem unusually good-willed, if they can say “this book is full of crap that I’m too smart for. Some idiot out there on Craigslist would love to have it”
@celox
AGREED
celox, I read it as sarcasm. But why the other books weren’t in the giveaway doesn’t make sense.
hotel bibles are Gideon’s bibles.
That is hilarious!
Gideons are an organization that place the King James Bibles in hotel rooms. They do not have anything to do with the content. The King James Bible (as previously stated) is NOT the same as the Catholic Bible. Translations are different and the Catholic version has a few extra books.
The Church of the Perpetual Beanie Baby believes that by studying the quatrains attached to each collectible, we can survive the end times until we are raised up to live with soft, multi-colored animals. LEO the Lion shall lie down with BLAACKIE the Lamb.
please i want you to send it to me