Protestant Bookstore's And The Truth.

[Jnorm888]

[quote name='thessalonian' post='1216370' date='Mar 20 2007, 08:21 AM']I think about this from time to time. We talk about the 33,000 denominations. What about books stores. Protestant vs. Catholic. I can go in to a Catholic bookstrore and find it very difficult to find contradictions between the books. Yet you go to a protestant bookstore that is usually 10 times larger and you find Hank Hanagraph, who denies pre-trib rapture, next to Tim Lahaye's Left Behind series. TD Jakes next to John MacArthur. It's nutz.[/quote]


I bought three Scott Hahn books and I had them signed by him too in a protestant book store.

[Budge]

[quote]Nobody said that Dave Hunt had pornographic materials in his books.

So would you support a christian book store that sold porn?[/quote]

NO to the silly question above.

This person went to complain because they did not like what Dave Hunt had to say in his books about her religious beliefs.

This is like me going in a bookstore and demanding they remove all the Catholic books, Joel Osteen, and other books I DO not agree with.

I dont think they have a right to tell me what Im able to read or not read. A lot of business owners are scared of lawsuits or trouble so they give in to these demands.

[Groo the Wanderer]

[quote name='Budge' post='1217616' date='Mar 23 2007, 09:23 AM']NO to the silly question above.

This person went to complain because they did not like what Dave Hunt had to say in his books about her religious beliefs.

This is like me going in a bookstore and demanding they remove all the Catholic books, Joel Osteen, and other books I DO not agree with.

I dont think they have a right to tell me what Im able to read or not read. A lot of business owners are scared of lawsuits or trouble so they give in to these demands.[/quote]


This is NOT the same. You failed or refused to understand what was plainly said. He did not DEMAND anything. He lodged a complaint; an opinion. Yes, even Catholics get to have and express an opinion. He educated the owner on the contents of the book. The owner decided (all on his own without a gun to his head or his arms wrenched behind his back or his wife forced to wear polyester while mowing the lawn) to remove the book based on what he had learned. Simple.

The store owner/manager has EVERY right to remove or carry whatever they want or do not want to. They are not telling you you cannot read it...they are telling you you cannot buy it from them. That's all. Nothing more.

The owner has a choice in what to carry. You have a choice in where to shop. Freedom is kinda cool, huh? You want them to carry a certain book; then tell them so. They don't carry it; you go someplace that does.

[Paladin]

[quote name='Budge' post='1216371' date='Mar 20 2007, 10:29 AM']Most of them carry Catholic books too.

Right in the middle of my local one, huge Catholic section.

You find very little fundamentalist books, I have yet to even find a decent Dave Hunt book on any subject or good Bible prophecy books in a regular Christian bookstore.[/quote]
Interestingly, LifeWay Bookstores don't have a Catholic section. I went in once to find a Baptism gift and couldn't find a single crucifix. I've also been to a bookstore in Boone, NC that has a Messianic Jew section, but no Catholic. Which is interesting when a good 10% of the population is Catholic and I'd say less than 1% is Messianic Jew.

But those are out of the norm. As Budge said, most do have a Catholic section.

[Budge]

Yeah most do.
[quote]He lodged a complaint; an opinion. Yes, even Catholics get to have and express an opinion. He educated the owner on the contents of the book. The owner decided (all on his own without a gun to his head or his arms wrenched behind his back or his wife forced to wear polyester while mowing the lawn) to remove the book based on what he had learned. Simple.[/quote]

Honestly why complain unless the goal was to have the book removed? In todays litigious culture, the store keeper was probably frighten and afraid of probably being called an anti-catholic and being smeared as a "bigot" by the PC patrol. Bad for business.

[KnightofChrist]

[quote name='Budge' post='1217866' date='Mar 23 2007, 05:14 PM']Yeah most do.
Honestly why complain unless the goal was to have the book removed? In todays litigious culture, the store keeper was probably frighten and afraid of probably being called an anti-catholic and being smeared as a "bigot" by the PC patrol. Bad for business.[/quote]


Come on Budge, you complain all the time. Complaining is protected under the first amendment, for you and for every american.

[thessalonian]

[quote name='Budge' post='1217866' date='Mar 23 2007, 06:14 PM']Yeah most do.
Honestly why complain unless the goal was to have the book removed? In todays litigious culture, the store keeper was probably frighten and afraid of probably being called an anti-catholic and being smeared as a "bigot" by the PC patrol. Bad for business.[/quote]


Nope Budge, didn't see any fear in the owner at all. Yes, I hoped they would remove it. So what. I certainly didn't demand anything. You of course are the judge of all things and will say anything negative on this board in order to attempt to convert weak sheep with red herrings, straw men, partial truths, etc. because that is what wolves do.

[thessalonian]

[quote name='Budge' post='1217616' date='Mar 23 2007, 09:23 AM']NO to the silly question above.

This person went to complain because they did not like what Dave Hunt had to say in his books about her religious beliefs.

This is like me going in a bookstore and demanding they remove all the Catholic books, Joel Osteen, and other books I DO not agree with.

I dont think they have a right to tell me what Im able to read or not read. A lot of business owners are scared of lawsuits or trouble so they give in to these demands.[/quote]

I didn't demand anything budge. I merely gave the owner information he did not have. I had a very nice polite discussion and he responded how he liked. I didn't force anything. Are we Catholcis not allowed free speech? Guess not. I'm beginning to think you might want us all put in jail Budge.