http://www2.livingwater.org/livingwater/OpenDoor.html
One can get a free book of John (in a modern translation with notes) by filling out the above form (you can leave your email and phone number blank - I did). Don’t even have to pay any shipping. I stumbled across it and did it, not because I needed a book of John, but because I like getting free stuff. 
Thanks for the link Cranberry.
Found some free stuff (Bible-related) too;
If you want to study the basics of the Bible;
http://www.bbie.org/free-book/free-bible-basics-book.php
Or, you can get a New Testament here;
https://www.biblesforamerica.org/products/RequestRcV.aspx
(U.S.. addresses only)
http://www.christianity.net.au/help/bible_order.html
(Australia)
I used to have links to get free shampoo, but I’ve lost them. :O|
Yes…free enlightenment abounds:
For a free Koran go to:
http://www.freekoran.com/form.php
For a free Gita:
http://www.gita-society.com/free_Gita.htm
For a free Mormon version of the Bible:
http://www.mormon.org/holybible
Cheers,
David
I’ve been wanting a Koran! Thanks.
If you give a house address, you might get some free proselytization visits, too.
I don’t have one.
I like it when the Jehova’s Witnesses come over, though. They’re willing to discuss things most other random visitors aren’t.
Makes me think of when I was just out of high school. I was living with my grandparents, as my parents live overseas, and the Marine recruiter sent me a letter saying that if I didn’t call him he was going to come by. I wasn’t interested in being recruited by the Marines, and they would’ve not took me anyway, most likely, but I figured, if he could find me out there where I was living let him come by. He never showed up.
Whenever I’m forced to fill out a paper with an actual street address, I make one up, and put in the zip code, and it ends up at the post office anyway. The post office is so small the postal worker knows which box is mine, as long as my name’s on it.
Do you just have the stuff addressed to Cranberry?? 
Tom
Just a clarification: unless something has changed drastically in the last 10 years or so, the Mormons use the King James bible.
They do have additional books including “The Pearl of Great Price” and “The Book of Mormon.”
–James
With a few corrections and explanations added, i think? Joseph Smith worked on a Bible version, but he wasn’t finished with it when he died, and AFAIK the main branch of the LDS church doesn’t use it. But i have to say i know a lot less about LDS than i probably should.
I think I’ve seen Books of Mormon (Book of Mormons? What’s the correct plural?) in the same volume of the Bible, which would technically make it another book…
Actually, I use my real name: Strawberry.
As my Mormon-convert rommate told me, Joseph Smith was told by the angel (Gabriel, I believe)
which parts of the Bible had been corrupted by bad translations/politics, so Smith included an
appendix with his Bibles containing the corrections to those verses. So, the text of the Mormon
Bible is the same as a regular KJV, but with footnotes directing you to Smith’s fixes.
Of course, my friend may have been oversimplifying a bit for me…
The Bible is a tale told after the fact by several different witnesses, and as you can see in any court, witnesses rarely remember details correctly. As such, the Bible should be considered a work of fiction with a basis in fact. (Of course, you can say the same thing about the Amityville Horror.)
Also speaking of Catholicism, compare the rites/trappings of Catholicism with those of the Mithraism belief. Catholics co-opted many of their rites and symbolism from the Mithraics to both assimilate them and give credence to their own emerging religion.
Aodhan
Some of the Bible is indeed fiction, but I (personally) don’t think all of it is. Getting people to agree which parts should and should not be taken literally is always the hard part.
Also, some stories leave out what seem to be very important parts in today’s world but at the time they were written it was more common to leave different parts out for different reasons (for example, Jesus’ childhood to “about thirty”, in the time period it wasn’t considered odd at all that these years aren’t really mentioned…the important thing was the relatively short time period leading up to his death).
I’m taking a religion class at school, and learning about Mithraism…it’s fascinating indeed.
To me the Book of John is great literature. I’ve read parts of the Book of Mormon and the Koran. Comparing the Book of John with those two is like comparing Bach’s Mass in G Minor with Pop Goes The Weasel. I’m comparing literature with literature here. I’ll leave the issue of spiritual depth for another thread.
POP! Goes the weasel!
I’m curious, which parts exactly are indeed fiction?
Rod
Wait, is poetry not considered fiction?