If you're referring to Abraham and Issac I think you are taking things out of context a bit. God was just testing Abraham to see if he would really obey him and in fact Abraham was prevented from going through with it via an angel as I recall. As for the topic of Amazon's removing of the books while I agree that they have the right to remove anything from their system that they wish I do feel that they should have sent out a statement beforehand. If they can send out an advertisement of which books are the most popular for the current month then they could send out a statement that "books of nature or type x which have previously been published on Amazon will be removed from their servers, customers archives, etc. by date y" so that people who have bought the book(s) in question will know to save them either to their kindle device or some other media so that they still have them (if they wish). That isn't just a good business policy, that's something known as common courtesy as well. Most book publishers have guidelines that spell out what genre/type of written material they will accept for publication and I understand from reading some of the other posts here that Amazon's guidelines are vague at best. They need to clarify things without being discourteous to the customer. Without customers a business ceases to be a business after all. Do you think Microsoft would stay open if everyone stopped buying Windows OS? Hardly, they would go out of business and while it's not realistic to think that Amazon will go out of business over night over this matter they are no doubt causing themselves a great deal of hurt by their apparent unilateral handling of things of late. Nothing travels faster than bad publicity.
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Originally Posted by rhadin
The Old Testament wasn't written to arouse sexual desire but it was written to justify genocide, murder, and many other things that we consider morally repugnant, including human sacrifice.
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