What do you think of this story?

Question

I posted this and received a violation notice from yahoo, I dont get why they do that, your responses would be greatly apppreciated, Thank you.

Bible Sales

A minister concluded that his church was getting into serious
financial troubles.

While checking the church storeroom, he discovered several cartons of
new bibles that had never been opened and distributed. So at his
Sunday sermon he asked for three volunteers from the congregation who
would be willing to sell the bibles door-to-door for $10 each to raise
the desperately needed money for the church.

Peter, Paul and Louie all raised their hands to volunteer for the
task. The minister knew that Peter and Paul earned their living as
salesmen and were likely capable of selling some bibles but he had
serious doubts about Louie. Louie was just a little local farmer, who
had always tended to keep to him because he was embarrassed by his
speech impediment. Poor little Louis stuttered very badly. But, not
wanting to discourage poor Louis, the minister decided to let him try
anyway.

He sent the three of them away with the back seat of their cars
stacked with bibles and asked them to meet with him and report the
results of their door-to-door selling efforts the following Sunday.

Anxious to find out how successful they were, the minister immediately
asked Peter, "Well, Peter, how did you make out selling our bibles
last week?"

Proudly handing the reverend an envelope, Peter replied, "using my
sales prowess, I was able to sell 20 bibles, and here's the $200 I
collected on behalf of the church."

"Fine job, Peter!" The minister said, vigorously shaking his hand.
"You are indeed a fine salesman and the Church is indebted to you."
Turning to Paul, he asked "And Paul, how many bibles did you manage to
sell for the church last week?"

Paul, smiling and sticking out his chest, confidently replied, "I am a
professional salesman and was happy to give the church the benefit of
my sales expertise. Last week I sold 28 bibles on behalf of the
church, and here's $280 I collected."

The minister responded, "That's absolutely splendid, Paul. You are
truly a professional salesman and the church is also indebted to you."

Apprehensively, the minister turned too little Louie and said, "And
Louie, did you manage to sell any bibles last week?"

Louie silently offered the minister a large envelope. The reverend
opened it and counted the contents. "What is this?" the minister
exclaimed. "Louie, there's $3200 in here! Are you suggesting that you
sold 320 bibles for the church, door to door, in just one week?

Louie just nodded.

That's impossible!" both Peter and Paul said in unison. "We are
professional salesmen, yet you claim to have sold 10 times as many
bibles as we could."

"Yes, this does seem unlikely," the minister agreed. "I think you'd
better explain how you managed to accomplish this, Louie."

Louie shrugged "I-I-I- re-re-really do-do-don't kn-kn-know f-f-f-for
sh-sh-sh-sure," he stammered.

Impatiently, Peter interrupted. "For crying out loud, Louie, just tell
us what you said to them when they answered the door!"

"A-a-a-all I-I-I s-s-said wa-wa-was," Louis replied, "W-w-w-w-would
y-y-y-you l-l-l-l-l-like t-t-to b-b-b-buy th-th-th-this b-b-b-b-bible
f-f-for t-t-ten b-b-b-bucks ---o-o-o-or--- wo-wo-would yo-you
j-j-j-just l-like m-m-me t-t-to st-st-stand h-h-here and
r-r-r-r-r-read it t-to y-y-you?"




A cheerful heart is good medicine... (Prov 17:22)

Answer 1

Don't see anything here that would warrant a violation notice, but as some people said, maybe there are concerned with the abuse of religion (though I can't anything offending !)

Answer 2

its an awesome story! I think its probably fiction(no duh, lol) Yahoo probably just doesn't like the idea of selling "Christianity" like it supports it. Though I am sure they wouldnt care if it was the same story for Buddists. oh well. Its a great story and Yahoo made a mistake in sending you a violation notice.

Answer 3

As you can see from the above answers, it is quite a mixed group here. It is a pretty good story.

Answer 4

That's pretty funny, but I would have told Louie to feck off.

Answer 5

Really cute- Starred adn thumbs up!

Answer 6

Yeah, that did make me laugh. I'm just glad that it wasn't that fake story people have been emailing around about Einstein.

Answer 7

funny story, but maybe yahoo was thinking you were discrimnating people with speech impetiments. I have no idea. anyway, its a cute story, a little harsh but its funny.

Answer 8

you should have gotten a violation because religion should not be for sale!

Answer 9

Like I am really going to read all that mess.

Answer 10

Thanks for the good laugh!
I'll be sure to pass it to a few of my friends.