Brief update to my previous entry on the Koran being available for free (if you live in Houston and it showed up on your doorstep) or for the cost of shipping (less than $5) from the Book of Signs Foundation:
I stopped by Half Price Books last week over lunch, and took a gander in the Religion section. They had a Book of Signs-issued Koran for sale - for $7.50!
I rarely fault Half Price Books' pricing scheme, but when you sell the Book of Mormon (the Mormons don't charge you, and they'll cover the shipping costs or have missionaries bring it by directly), the Koran, or the King James Version of the Bible (again, free thanks to the Mormons or if you swipe a copy from the Gideons from a hotel room) at a cost well above where it is available elsewhere, you've got a problem.
Then again, I suppose holy books from active, proselytizing religions are much more the exception than the rule, because it's to their benefit to get their book in your hands as quickly as possible. On the other hand, I think I would have a relatively harder time getting hold of a copy of the Guru Granth Sahib (Sikh holy book).
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I stopped by Half Price Books last week over lunch, and took a gander in the Religion section. They had a Book of Signs-issued Koran for sale - for $7.50!
I rarely fault Half Price Books' pricing scheme, but when you sell the Book of Mormon (the Mormons don't charge you, and they'll cover the shipping costs or have missionaries bring it by directly), the Koran, or the King James Version of the Bible (again, free thanks to the Mormons or if you swipe a copy from the Gideons from a hotel room) at a cost well above where it is available elsewhere, you've got a problem.
Then again, I suppose holy books from active, proselytizing religions are much more the exception than the rule, because it's to their benefit to get their book in your hands as quickly as possible. On the other hand, I think I would have a relatively harder time getting hold of a copy of the Guru Granth Sahib (Sikh holy book).
Thanks for visiting Mormania!
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