Posted on 03/03/2024 2:13:34 PM PST by Morgana
Two days ago, we broke the news that Logos Bible Software and their sister site Faithlife E-books were selling thousands of titles that contained hardcore erotica and pornography that rivaled the most sordid and smuttiest of Harlequins. Now, it gets even worse.
Logos Bible Software is perhaps the world’s most prominent and popular sermon prep and bible study software. Released in 1992 by Faithlife Corporation, this digital library application contains over 100,000 titles and theological resources in over a dozen languages and has been endorsed by everyone from John MacArthur to Beth Moore.
Early last month, a long-time Logos user who spent nearly $15,000 on books and bible commentaries over the last decade discovered that the lauded company sold thousands of perverted and wanted to see this rectified, as Logos suddenly became unsafe for his children to use.
On Feb 2, he messaged Vik Rajagopal, CEO, directly via Linkedin and received no response.
On Feb 3, he messaged Vik Rajagopal via https://faithlife.com/messages/vikrajagopal and received no response.
After a few days he tried again, emailing Logos Sales and Customer Service on Feb 5, which we covered in depth here, giving them a detailed list of the problem. (which if you haven’t red yet, read first and then come back to this)
He told them (in part) “Here are just a few of what appear to be 100s of erotic pornographic fiction titles currently being sold on Logos” and gave a list, including: Slow Satisfaction, Slow Seduction, Wild Licks, The Hookup Plan, Taking the Lead, That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon, I Need a Hero Box Set: A Military Romance Collection, Unbuttoning the CEO, One Night with the CEO, Getting Dirty with the CEO, Hard Rhythm, Ravished by a Highlander, Tamed by a Highlander, The Seduction of Miss Amelia Bell, The Scandalous Secret of Abigail MacGregor, Seduced by a Highlander, Conquered by a Highlander, A Highlander’s Christmas Kiss, Laird of the Black Isle, The Taming of Malcolm Grant, Laird of the Mist, A Highlander Never Surrenders, The Scot’s Bride, Highlander Ever After.
On Feb 6th, Logos Customer Service replied, telling him “We have notified the supervisors and departments involved in removing this content. We don’t have a timeframe on when it will be finalized but we did want you to know that we are working on it.”
On Feb 7th, the next day, Logos removed about a dozen books for purchase. But a dozen is a drop in the bucket, given that their catalog contains thousands of these books. While some books were excised, others included in his list of offending titles were not and remain at the time of writing, including:
Making matters more frustrating, however, is that while Logos removed a dozen titles from their outward-facing store, they were not removed from the Logos Bible Study app. All the pornographic books and others can still be accessed via the Logos “Add to Library” Search.” (Note for picture: the little shopping cart icon next to the book title indicates the book can be purchased.)
The complainant told us, “I asked them to fix the problem, not remove a couple of books.” Having these books still accessible in the Logos Bible Study app is not fixing the problem.
Following his email and their pledge to look into it, he thanked them and requested, “Please keep me posted.”
They did not keep him posted. On Feb 9th, he requested a status update from the customer care agent, but no one got back to him, and no further responses were forthcoming.
After being ghosted, he checked the Logos website for the next three weeks. Apparently, the removal of a dozen books is as serious as the company took it because thousands of erotic and pornographic books remained and were not removed from the front or back end, despite the company knowing about it early last month.
These still-available books include ‘How to Write Erotica”, and “Affection, an Erotic Memoir,” which has a naked woman’s butt on the front cover that we had to blur out.
After waiting weeks and seeing no further action, he contacted us through our tip line (Twitter DM’s or editor@protestia.com) and we wrote the story, bringing it all into the light, and prompting the company to take a more urgent course of action.
Describing the issue as the result of an “automated feed from the publisher” and the graphic content as not in alignment with their philosophy, Logos Bible Software announced that they were removing hundreds of erotic novels from their e-book service available through the Logos application.
Sadly, for several days now we have put in multiple requests through multiple channels for an interview or conversation with Logos about this, but so far they have declined our request. If anyone has any contacts at Logos who would be willing to give us further clarity, please let us know.
See you tomorrow for Part 3.
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Protestia has not put out Part 3 yet but when they do I will post it.
I wonder how much of their income was derived from these books?
Can some brave soul out there confirm this? I know the CCP is up to all kinds of stuff and this smells rotten to the core to me.
The devil inserts everywhere, Judas notwithstanding.
Porn is big business
There was a time, two and a half decades ago, where we could choose between companies that were turning hard left or companies that were trying to remain neutral or turn right.
The left made their money count while we didn't. The result is that just about all of the major companies have adopted the leftists agenda to the point of supporting "affirmation care" for children. Those who didn't toe the line went out of business. Now, good luck finding a company that doesn't promote a woke ideology.
It was the same with offshoring, where we could have chosen between companies that were offshoring their work or companies that tried to keep American labor. We had a choice then, and for the most part we chose price over made in USA. The result was that all companies had to offshore to compete.
In both cases, we had the chance to vote with our money, and this was what we voted for.
bkmk
Bad already. My web site uses the free RefTagger to provide free pop up viewing of Bible verses. As in:
Scripture teaches one receives spiritual life by believing the gospel by which one is regenerated, (Acts 10:43-47; 15:7-9; Eph. 1:13) and thus one desires the milk of the word, (1Pt. 2:2) and then receives the “strong meat” (Heb. 5:12-14) of the word of God, being “nourished” (1Tim. 4:6) and built up by the word of God, and letting it dwell in them richly. (Col. 3:16) By which word (Scriptures) man is to live by, (Mt. 4:4) as Christ lived by the Father, (Jn. 6:57) with doing His will being His “meat.” (Jn. 4:34) And with the Lord's supper, which is only manifestly described once (besides mention of the "feast of charity" Jude 1:14) in the inspired record of the life of the church, being that in which the focus is on the church as the body of Christ showing unity with Christ and each other, by recognizing/treating others as blood-bought members of that Body by sharing food in that communal meal, thus effectually remembering and showing/declaring the Lord sacrificial death for the church which He (God) purchased with His own sinless shed blood. (Acts 2:28; cf. 1Pt. 2:22-24)
Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
21. that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."
Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.
Leviticus niv
18:22 Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.
20:13 If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable.
They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
Isaiah 3:9 The look on their faces testifies against them;
they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it.
Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.
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2 Peter 2:13b Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight.
They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
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Ezekiel 16:49-50 "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom:
She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
They were haughty and did detestable things before me.
Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.
1. But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
4. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
5. if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
6. if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7. and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men
8. (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--
9. if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
10. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
11. yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
12. But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13. They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
But there IS hope!!!
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
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