USA – A Christian bookshop has caused amusement online after sharing a quote that mocked Christianity.
The sign was outside a Christian Bible store
“The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible,” the quote outside a Bible store read. Widely attributed to Mark Twain, the phrase is often used to criticize Christianity and many commentators online pointed out the store’s owners might have misunderstood.
Retrieved Christianity Today, Mitch Hoover, from Wichita, Kansas, shared the image on Facebook with the caption: “Ummm…I don’t think that quote means you think it means.”
A discussion on the online forum Reddit quickly escalated with various people offering suggestions for how the quote ended up outside a Christian store.
“Maybe they’re just trying to sell Bibles,” wrote one.
“I think people might read it as ‘For Christians, the best cure is the Bible’,” another suggested.
The possible reasons quickly became more far-fetched.
“Maybe they are interpreting it to mean “Christianity is corrupt and sick and the only cure is for people to start reading the bible” but that’s a bit of a stretch,” said one.
Another quickly chimed in with an alternative theory.
“Maybe one of the employees – the one charged with posting quotes – is secretly an atheist.”
But some were just plain baffled by the mistake.
“Beats me. The words ‘Cure Christianity’ are both right there, in the same sentence… adjacent to one another even! I honestly have no idea how anyone could interpret that quote in any other way than what was originally intended,” another said.
And some just found it purely entertaining.
