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- Sublex, on 02/08/2009, -64/+176Where the ***** is the Bible on the list?
- johnnick, on 02/08/2009, -6/+95If you include the Bible then you have to include all of the other religious texts and the list gets waaaay too long for Cracked. Besides, the Bible at least apparently has some accuracy with regard to historical events, unlike say, Scientology.
- DanielDamian, on 02/08/2009, -2/+76That was an awesome read. And it gave me the idea to write about that one time where I killed the pope and impregnated the Statue of Liberty.
- inactive, on 02/08/2009, -7/+55***** the Bible, where's Dianetics?
- Kakumeikeahi, on 02/08/2009, -1/+48Two things will always be true:
1. There will always be people to believe everything they are told.
2. And there will always be people more then willing to give those people things to believe. - fuzzybeard, on 02/08/2009, -0/+40Where's "Dianetics?"
- Fhwqhgads, on 02/08/2009, -2/+39Oh now you've done it! :)
- nitsuj222, on 02/08/2009, -0/+33I read about a forth of A Million Little Pieces before I called *****.
If I was James Frey I would tell you that I soaked that book and myself with gasoline and lit a match.
All I really did was throw the book across the room and yell ***** so loud my neighbors came and shot me with a shotgun. After I recovered I was so addicted to the pain meds that I went out of control and pretty much led my life exactly like James Frey's book.
I think i'll write a book... - DrewG7, on 02/08/2009, -1/+29Wait, where's Tucker Max?
- DeathStrawberry, on 02/08/2009, -22/+49Anyone who asks that question doesn't understand the criteria for the list. All 5 books were blatant lies, confirmed to be false, written by an author who admits the lie, and the publisher pulled the book. The Bible is among thousands of ancient works which you can't fit into any of those criterion. But good job being the douche to use any and every opportunity to bash religion.
- Sublex, on 02/08/2009, -0/+25She told me she was a virgin yesterday!
That whore. - bullhead2007, on 02/08/2009, -15/+39It has about as much historical accuracy as Homer's Illiad. Sure it might name a place that existed, it might even mention an event. However, the events are so covered in ***** and mythology and super heroes that real archeologists aren't exactly using it as a field guide.
- BadWobot, on 02/08/2009, -0/+17One time, okay see, one time Randy Beaman's mom had a dream that she ate a big marshmallow and it was really good and she -- and when she woke up her pillow was gone... cuz she ate it. 'Kay, bye.
- BellaVitaGirl, on 02/08/2009, -1/+16Hahahaha my favorite part: Comment from ludovicopaleto, saying "The Da Vinci Code is totally missing."
Did this person even read the article and the part about "published as NON-fiction"?? - felidaeus, on 02/08/2009, -4/+19@bullhead
Except they are.
Look it up.
Genesis is mostly ignored yes, but the rest of it isn't. - Greyscale88, on 02/08/2009, -1/+15Dugg for the picture of the Shinecock Indian.
- MacEnvy, on 02/08/2009, -0/+11Well, she IS French.
- chrisj33, on 02/08/2009, -0/+11But... you're a towel
- ElBeh, on 02/08/2009, -0/+11Just shut the ***** up already.
- ElBeh, on 02/08/2009, -0/+10I was really pissed when I learned that "Go Ask Alice" was fiction. I had actually thought that it was a true diary, and was inspired by it and everything. Then I looked it up on Wikipedia and learned that it was fiction, and confirmed it on Snopes. ***** that "real diary" it was advertised as.
- WinZiggy, on 02/08/2009, -0/+9How apropos. . .the Cash for Gold ad at the end of the article!
- diggymow, on 02/08/2009, -0/+9So many people don't realize that The Da Vinci Code is supposed to be fiction. I had this argument with a guy who responded "yeah I know the detective guy isn't real but the author is saying everything else is!" No.
- alpha88, on 02/08/2009, -6/+14There was no criteria specified, just the title which says "Most ridiculous lies ever published as nonfiction".
The bible was published as nonfiction, and full of ridiculous lies which have held the human race back from advancing forward with Science for centuries.
@Snokage: The burden of providing proof lies on the believer. If I were to say I am the richest person in the world, I wouldn't expect you to believe me without proof. That would be just absurd. So why should I (or anyone for that matter) believe something else which provides no proof? It's illogical and foolish to say "this is the truth, prove me wrong". - titi232, on 02/08/2009, -0/+8The whole drama was created by the drama queen Oprah.
She's the one who got pwned when she called up Larry King Live when he was questioning James Frey about discrepancies in his book and tried to tell Larry King that he didn't know what he was talking about. Only to have Frey admit that he had made it up.
So Oprah of course had to save face by having him come back to show so that she could put him in his place. - LOGNATR, on 02/08/2009, -5/+12#6 - George W. Bush's diploma from Yale University.
- TheInformer, on 02/08/2009, -0/+7#1 on the list has to be this:
"Change" - DeathStrawberry, on 02/08/2009, -0/+7I'm not too surprised. If you publish something against Scientology, you can consider yourself sued.
- CeeJayDK, on 02/08/2009, -1/+8I feel sorry for you.
- WiretapStudios, on 02/08/2009, -0/+7Passed out, alone, behind a Bennigans somewhere.
- felidaeus, on 02/09/2009, -3/+10@datdamonfoo
Obvious troll is obvious. - bullhead2007, on 02/08/2009, -18/+24Really? The Bible doesn't contain blatant lies confirmed to be false? Like the creation, flood, exodus, etc? The only part the bible doesn't fit into is that the authors didn't admit they lied, and unfortunately didn't pull their books.
- BellaVitaGirl, on 02/08/2009, -0/+5*facepalm* no wonder it was on the bestseller list for so long. It's entertaining fiction, but that's all it is...fiction. Dan Brown is laughing all the way to the bank.
- VSKBadCRC, on 02/08/2009, -0/+5Surprisingly, not one part of the Scientology doctrine made it to this list.
- coondog35, on 02/08/2009, -0/+5Fargo (the movie) anyone?
- RobotBuddha, on 02/09/2009, -0/+5You're a towel.
- ftc08, on 02/09/2009, -0/+5Yes. We can read your screen name.
- donkeyshow, on 02/08/2009, -1/+6they forgot Carlos Castanedas "the teachings of Don Juan"
- breadfred, on 02/08/2009, -0/+5Wow, man, I am so glad you posted this on this thread. Please follow my reply here: http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Jackson.html
Have fun with it. =)) - geekmansworld, on 02/08/2009, -0/+5Ridiculous lies published as nonfiction? There are a bunch dugg daily.
- VivaLaUndead, on 02/08/2009, -1/+6i think any religious collection would fit that catagory
- SAKevin, on 02/08/2009, -0/+5Protocols of the Elders of Zion? Anybody?
- felidaeus, on 02/09/2009, -4/+7There are too many examples to even make trying to compile them worthwhile.
Here's one from an independent source.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/art ...
Good luck trying to find the isle of circe. - strikertp, on 02/08/2009, -0/+3Anything by Kevin Trudeau.
Seriously ***** that guy. - miamifan5499, on 02/09/2009, -0/+3...or dead
- ftc08, on 02/09/2009, -0/+3Fargo the city is a pile of ***** too.
- richiewrt, on 02/08/2009, -0/+3I came here just to say that, so I dugg you up!
- RobotBuddha, on 02/09/2009, -0/+3One of the absolute best. I was really down with his stuff when I was a kid. Until I chanced on a book debunking it. I think that was my first encounter with skeptical analysis.
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