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The LA Times has the story today of a local Christian pastor who, while shopping at his nearby Simi Valley Costco store, noticed that a rack of Bibles were stamped "fiction." The pastor, Caleb Kaltenbach, snapped a photo of the label on his phone and posted it to Twitter, prompting an (all too expected) uproar from parties both on the "bible is truth" side and the "bible is not truth side" of things.
For his part, Kaltenbach says that he took the photo because it was "interesting" and that shoppers should not boycott Costco over this (he, "does not want people to turn this into something it's not"). Costco, meanwhile, says that the label was a distributing error from their warehouse that's since been corrected.
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