# "Christian" publishers are crooks, sky is blue. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 5, 2017, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-publishers-are-crooks-sky-is-blue/785905 "2017-05-05T12:58:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-publishers-are-crooks-sky-is-blue/785905/41 "2017-05-09T00:16:12Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > What “other side?” Would that be the other cheek? ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-publishers-are-crooks-sky-is-blue/785905/42 "2017-05-09T00:19:56Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Any business invoking the label “Christian” is automatically suspect. I have yet to encounter an exception. It’s like if Jesus had walked around with a T-shirt reading: **Yo! I’m the Son of God!** in rhinestones. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-publishers-are-crooks-sky-is-blue/785905/43 "2017-05-09T00:41:11Z")
> [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > It’s like if Jesus had walked around with a T-shirt reading: **Yo! I’m the Son of God!** in rhinestones. Disco Jesus doesn’t advertise. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-publishers-are-crooks-sky-is-blue/785905/44 "2017-05-09T02:39:19Z")
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons –Ralph Waldo Emerson ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-publishers-are-crooks-sky-is-blue/785905/45 "2017-05-09T04:06:02Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Not necessarily. For every place that overcharges to deliver 100 copies of someone’s drivel between covers, there are ones that do a respectable job of turning out very niche books like family histories or community almanacs. But yeah, it’s a tainted term. Don’t forget about the Papyrus or Comic Sans fonts. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-publishers-are-crooks-sky-is-blue/785905/46 "2017-05-09T04:49:01Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > What “other side?” The untated, of course. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-publishers-are-crooks-sky-is-blue/785905/47 "2017-05-09T13:52:10Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Taters gonna tate. Don’t be tatin’ Won’t someone think of the children?! I worry about their kids - those poor Tater tots. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-publishers-are-crooks-sky-is-blue/785905/48 "2017-05-09T15:11:24Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Won’t someone think of the children?! I worry about their kids - those poor Tater tots. Don’t bring Ron White’s son into this. He doesn’t need to be Tated by association with these criminals. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-publishers-are-crooks-sky-is-blue/785905/49 "2017-05-09T17:57:07Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > What “other side?” Your words… “Just for shiggles, is the non-Xian vanity press notably more ethical as an industry?” That “other side”. So if you were to get hauled to court for murder, is your argument going to be “other guys do it too” ? That would be fun to watch. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-publishers-are-crooks-sky-is-blue/785905/50 "2017-05-09T17:58:19Z")
> [@Chisquirrel](#): > > Don’t bring Ron White’s son into this. He doesn’t need to be Tated by association with these criminals. Yeah. that would be “a little bit unprofessional” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-publishers-are-crooks-sky-is-blue/785905/51 "2017-05-09T18:04:54Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Your words… > > “Just for shiggles, is the non-Xian vanity press notably more ethical as an industry?” > That “other side”. So if you were to get hauled to court for murder, is your argument going to be “other guys do it too” ? > > That would be fun to watch. Are you really this stupid? Xian vanity press is a subset of the vanity press industry, not “the other side.” ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-publishers-are-crooks-sky-is-blue/785905/52 "2017-05-09T20:03:42Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Are you really this stupid? Xian vanity press is a subset of the vanity press industry, not “the other side.” Whatever, what you were attempting is still a “those guys do it too” bullshit line regardless. ---
**Author:** ![Beren\_Erchamion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/90ced4/32.png) [@Beren\_Erchamion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beren_Erchamion)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-publishers-are-crooks-sky-is-blue/785905/53 "2017-05-09T21:40:19Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Any business invoking the label “Christian” is automatically suspect. I have yet to encounter an exception. Inasmuch as being a Christian is incompatible with exploiting your brothers and sisters for profit, the phrase “Christian business” is a contradiction in terms. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-publishers-are-crooks-sky-is-blue/785905/54 "2017-05-09T21:41:22Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Whatever, what you were attempting is still a “those guys do it too” bullshit line regardless. No. You’re just kind of stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Beren\_Erchamion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/90ced4/32.png) [@Beren\_Erchamion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beren_Erchamion)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-publishers-are-crooks-sky-is-blue/785905/55 "2017-05-09T21:42:09Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Which is why the term “Christian Patriot” is so fucking scary. It, too, is a contradiction in terms. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-publishers-are-crooks-sky-is-blue/785905/56 "2017-05-09T21:47:17Z")
> [@Beren\_Erchamion](#): > > It, too, is a contradiction in terms. Sounds like the people who said John F. Kennedy was unsuitable for the presidency, because, as a Catholic, he’d be taking orders from the Pope. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-publishers-are-crooks-sky-is-blue/785905/57 "2017-05-09T21:48:47Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > No. You’re just kind of stupid. So then, humor me. What the fuck ARE you trying to defend or justify? ---
**Author:** ![Beren\_Erchamion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/90ced4/32.png) [@Beren\_Erchamion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beren_Erchamion)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-publishers-are-crooks-sky-is-blue/785905/58 "2017-05-09T21:51:15Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Sounds like the people who said John F. Kennedy was unsuitable for the presidency, because, as a Catholic, he’d be taking orders from the Pope. ? Hatred is not a Christian virtue. Patriotism is hatred. Christians love and embrace all without regard for artificial, morally-irrelevant lines on a map: Christians are globalists. Thus, Christians can’t be patriots. If you’re a patriot, then by definition, you’re not a Christian. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-publishers-are-crooks-sky-is-blue/785905/59 "2017-05-09T21:53:00Z")
> [@Beren\_Erchamion](#): > > Patriotism is hatred. I see. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-publishers-are-crooks-sky-is-blue/785905/60 "2017-05-09T22:33:58Z")
> [@Beren\_Erchamion](#): > > Hatred is not a Christian virtue. ROFL [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-publishers-are-crooks-sky-is-blue/785905.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-publishers-are-crooks-sky-is-blue/785905.md?page=4)