I have mentioned a time or two that I shop at Barnes & Noble for my book purchases. So today at lunch, while running my errands, I passed by a B&N and decided to drop in and pick up Tolle’s A New Earth. I agree with the comment that gracieguru posted; you should have read a book if you are going to call it trash. So I stopped in and went to the Christian section. I searched the alphabetical stacks and found the T’s. Looking down the rows I ran through the letters….T…..TO….TOL…..TOLL….Hmmm no Tolle found. So I went up to the information desk and ask the lady there. She knew the book and came out of the little circular information desk to lead me to my book.
She led me right back to the Christian section, passed right through it to “New Age” and pulled the book off the shelf. I then asked for A Course in Miracles, so she moved over one shelf and picked it up and handed it to me; also in the New Age section. I could not resist, so I asked her “I thought these were Christian works?”
“Nope, they are new age!” she responded. I thanked her and told her she made my day. Barnes & Noble agree that these are not Christian books.
Wondering if Barnes & Noble was alone, I looked up the book on the Borders Books website; they classify it as Metaphysical. Amazon.com sticks it under Spirituality. In looking at it, it appears that only Oprah and those that believe her actually classify this as a Christian book. Hmmmm…..go figure!
So to those who go to buy these books, look up and notice what section you are in. There is a reason that all these book sellers classify them that way.
