How come the Bible is the most stolen book, and one of the ten comandments is "thou shall not steal"?

Maybe the people stealing the Bibles haven't read them yet? Or, at least haven't gotten as far as the 10 Commandments? Or, maybe when they've read the "Thou Shalt Not Steal" part, they return the Bible? Have there been any studies on how many stolen Bibles are returned to their rightful owners?

1) If it is the most sold and has been the most sold on a very long time span, it will be the most stolen just on the reason of probability calculations.


2) Are the Gideon's Bibles actually stolen? I always thought you could take them with you if you did not have any.


3) "The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries."
http://www.distant.ca/UselessFacts/fact.asp?ID=258


4) "The Frankfurt Book Fair has an unusual indicator to help publishers gauge public interest in the new literary offerings presented at the annual exhibition. It's the unofficial "most stolen book" index."

"[...] Julia Frank, winner of the German Book Prize 2007. A spokesperson for her publisher told ABC News that "it's only going ... a matter of another week or two before Julia's book tops the best-seller list here in Germany."
Why so confident? According to spokesperson Petra Baumann-Zink, the book was the most-stolen work at the publisher's stands at this year's fair. "I guarantee you this will be mirrored in her selling figures.""
Source and further information:
http://www.abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=3736578&page=1

Further information:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=27342&sectionid=3510212

So the best sellers are also the most stolen.


5) As to that little sentence among a lot of others: you don't always do what a book told you to do, especially if you have not read it yet.

Everyone except the fundamentalist literalists cherry picks which parts of the Bible to accept literally, which to interpret metaphorically, and which to reject.

Be thankful that this is true, for there are quite a lot of bad lessons in there amongst the good stuff.

That is one of the magical ways in which a Bible is transferred to those who most desperately need it.

i like the Q!!!

they sell them for church Man :)) priest buy them :)

Theres no true reason. The bible is also a supporter of peace yet religion is the number one cause of wars. In the bible its a sin to be gay but that also means its a sin to love. Religion is a contradiction and thats why im not religious.