/lit/ - Literature

Maybe there should be a religious section.

>>6957472
put them in the self-help section. They're just bronze-age Deepak Chopras

The purpose of sorting systems is for the interested parties to find the sorted items in question.

Fact or reality has nothing to do with the simple, utilitarian purpose of sorting objects.

Whether religious texts are works of fiction or nonfiction is absolutely irrelevant. Instead you should ask whether their readers are more likely on average to believe them to be fictional or nonfictional, and (with the exception of people with OCD or Asperger's Syndrome) these solutions only cause a problem for people in the camp you do not expect- it may waste seconds or even a minute of their time in finding the book they seek in another section.

F U C K O F F S P E R G tbh

>>6957519
How am I a sperg for wondering if uncertain works should be sorted as something other than 'nonfiction.' Isn't the point of nonfiction to be certain?

ah summer trolls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-6r86T1m4c

>>6957472
There should be a seperate section for religion, right next to astrology, voodoo, witches and magical powers such as healing; the fiction section.

There is literally nothing wrong with Dewey/LoC

>>6958340
Dewey's biggest problem in this specific case is that 220-280s are all about christianity, and then the rest is slammed into 290s

libraries aren't sorted into fiction and history
even myths and self-help are technically non-fiction

I am super atheist but I love religious texts
they belong in nonfiction. If the library has a religious section it belongs there. My favorite bookstores have a religious section and a religious fiction section to segregate the interesting from the pure shit.

>>6957472
>nonfiction is sure to be factual

Jared Diamond is non-fiction
Chariot of the Gods is fucking non-fiction

>>6957472
In the Fiction or Fantasy/Science Fiction sections

Here, I'll post the faggot fedora meme so you don't have to.