Fundie buys food processor. Fundie opens said processor and deposits Fundie reading material with warranty information and seals box with tape gun. Fundie returns item. Jessica buys item and reports to Consumerist.

Creeped out? I'd throw it away and get on with life.

If this creeps you out, I'd stay away from any source of news. It's a scary world out there. Compared to some of the things going on in the world a pamphlet with some religious propaganda is pretty tame.

And what "other action" would you want to take? What do you want to accomplish? Do you want compensation? I'm really not sure what "other action" you can take other than throwing it out and emailing consumerist to get it off your chest.

Something similar happened to me, once (in the sense of 'surprise christianity!') - I got an application to Office Depot and as I was looking through it, it went something like this:
Application,
application,
application,
jesus saves!
application.

Somehow, part of a religious pamplet had gotten mixed up with the normal sheets.

Big deal, I got a flyer inside of a text book that said that the ban on partial birth abortions was a threat to society. You know what I did?

Threw it out and pretended that nothing happened.

Seriously how can a generic flyer get you "creeped out."

People walk in, put in pamphlets. It's pretty simple. Nothing to be creeped out about. This is one melodramatic woman.

That is one hilarious pamphlet.

I lean towards shopdropping as the source.

If she's creeped out by that, imagine how she'd feel if there really is some supernatural being watching her every move and judging her to decided on her eventual reward... I mean Santa Claus, of course.

I had someone put about five such pamphlets into an ebay item I purchased. They got negative feedback from me.

If your really worried about it take the unit back, demand a new one from the shelf and open it in front of the returns employee to assure that one hasn't been opened by someone. My only concern would be that someone nutty enough to put religious pamphlets in new sealed merchandise would be nutty enough to possibly tamper with it otherwise.

Get the Cuisinart DFP-14BCN. Even if you don't use it, it looks so pretty on your counter.

get over it

If I were to guess, it was not put there by the company (they want to make money, not convert people)

If I were to guess, it was not put there by Wal-Mart (they want to make money, not convert people)

My guess it was done by a customer..... that is if it was just in the box.

If it was "mixed" in with the other papers in the box, then my guess would be either it was opened by a customer (returned), or an employee at Black & Decker was having "fun".

It's a war, see. They're fighting a guerrilla battle for our hearts and minds, so future generations will saved from damnation.

Laugh and move on people.

Is it possible that somebody just slipped it into a crevice in the box without disturbing the tape seal?

Anyway, people distribute literature of a religious nature all the time. I can't say that it has ever "creeped me out". Sometimes the people distributing said literature strike me as sketchy, but since the submitter was spared that awkward encounter then perhaps she should consider herself lucky.

Man... that pamphlet is pretty pathetic. No wonder I'm not religious.

If OP is "totally creeped out" by that little pamphlet she should go to work at Country Bobs

I got a blender in my religious pamphlet.

I'm a Christian, but I even think these things are awkward and goofy. If you think this one is bad, you need to check out Chick Tracts.

Forget the content. I'd be creeped out that an item in a sealed box I bought as new was opened and tampered with. That to me is the real issue here. Who knows what else they did to your item? Take it back.

Dear God, please protect me from your followers:

Athiest Proverb

This would have been awesome if it was a Jack Chick comic.

There's your problem in the 2nd sentence...WalMart! Haven't you been reading the Consumerist? By the way, did you run over the receipt checker?

Total coincidence, but I just bought a Black & Decker blender at Target about 3 hours ago, and made a yummy smoothie. I walked out carrying the blender without a bag, and NO ONE ASKED TO SEE MY RECEIPT!

Dammit, forgot to ad, no religious stuff in the box either!

She should send it to American Idol. That's big time copyright and trademark infringement! I don't think God would approve.

I second the sending of it to American Idol. And I think it is right to be creeped out by it. I would return the whole thing and buy it from another store.
btw, remember the little prayer cards in the Alaska Airlines in-flight meals (and how long ago was it that they had in-flight meals, anyway)?

I'm a Christian, but I think the person who planted the pamphlet should be ashamed of his/herself for being misleading and returning an "unopened" item to the store. Not the proper way to spread the faith.

Simon is Satan

I'd recycle the pamphlet. Put it in the food processor, add some water and ham, turn it on, pour over cheesecloth and let dry.

You can serve the now religiously fortified ham. Fun for the whole family.

@demonradio: Not so awesome when you find "Dark Dungeons" in a D&D book you bought. That happened to my brother when he was 12 or so.

Fortunately, he and I were raised atheist, so we were well-insulated from that particular brand of craziness. Our mother was more upset than anybody.

Obnoxious, yes...creepy, not so much.

@kelrod: Well what difference does it make to the person returning the item whether or not it was opened? Most stores don't charge restocking fees.

When I open boxes, I open them to prevent the box from damaging so I can reuse the box and such. I don't think the person is being misleading necessarily...

Also, it's possible that the person opened the processor, took out all the pamphlets and accidentally put it in a pamphlet that they got in the mail or something when they repackaged the item.

Or somebody just put it in as a joke...

Nice, do you call Muslims towelheads? Please, if one little tract is that disturbing to you how do you deal with life? Please, the amount of attacks on people of faith in this country is certainly far more disturbing than one bad tract. The media finds this tract more disturbing than radical muslims. Read some wahhabi muslim tracts. Once again, if you don't like pitch it in the rubbish bin.

@ecwis: I guess I should have qualified my comment. I meant that if the person who inserted the pamphlet was a customer and bought the item specifically to insert said pamphlet and then return it with the impression that it was never opened, that's wrong. Of course, as you say, it could have been an accident or joke.

Just put it in the food processor and serve it with a side of Jesus Juice! Nah, but as a waiter a while back I had gotten more than my fair share of those frickin dollar-bill religious propaganda. Jesus won't pay the bills people!

@Michael Bauser:
I wish I could have gotten invited to a cult when I was playing D&D, I wanna cast real magic missiles!

Have to say the picture of Clay Aiken made me throw up in my mouth a little... but creepy?.. nah.

The pamphlet sure was selective in choosing the remarks of rejected contestants. Most of the ones I've heard don't go,"Gee, I sure tried my best." They're more like, "*BLEEP* THEM! THOSE *BLEEPIN' MUTHER*BLEEPERS DON'T KNOW TALENT! I AM SO GOOD! I'LL SHOW THOSE *BLEEPERS*! I DON'T NEED ANY OF THEM! I'LL BE FAMOUS! YOU'LL SEE!"

Not sure how Jesus would respond to that. Also wondering if this is Clay Aiken's fallback career.

Wow, I'm jealous. In just a few more short weeks, all that sand up in your vag will be lovely pearls, and you can afford to shop some place other than Wally World.

Seriously, Take a breath, willya?

Probably put there by a customer.

Quick screwing with Wal-Mart or Black & Decker looking for your "pound of flesh".

You looked at it, now decide if you should believe in God. If so, great; if not -- move on.

Jeez (no pun intended), do these proselytizing pious pamphleteers act like stalkers or what?

There was this guy in high school who was so "in love" with me that he would leave messages in my stuff and on my chair when my back was turned, and I rarely even saw him. Turns out he blackmailed his stupid friends into doing much of the work on his behalf by claiming he would kill himself if they didn't.

That's what this reminds me of. The creepy nonentity who has to blackmail his friends into helping him stalk people.

@mgy: funny you mention that model. I am selling the DFP-7BC [cgi.ebay.com] and picking up the 14BCN later this week. That is one nice looking appliance.

In defense of the OP, most anything with Clay Aiken would be pretty creepy, so I wouldn't take it as evangelical- or Christian-bashing.
Plus, with most ads that come with crap you buy, you know where it's coming from - it's usually an affiliate or someone who paid Amazon for placement.
Finally, it's one thing to have a weedwacker or VoIP service sold to you, but it's whole another for a flyer to start asking questions about your spirituality and your relationship with God and the world and shit - that stuff is deeply personal. Worst of all, it makes me want to defend American Idol! Now, that's creepy.

Anyway, someone in Fox Television's legal department should be drafting a cease-and-desist letter right about now. IANAL, but I'm pretty sure the modified Idol logo isn't fair use.

I hate religious zealots. People in my town are forever pushing pamphlets like they are crack cocaine! You hold the door for someone and they pull a pamphlet out and ask you if you know Jesus? No. Neither do you, hes been dead for a couple thousand years. When we go shopping, I help with everything, but my wife bags the groceries because apparently she feels I will crush the bread or something. One day a lady watched as my wife bagged the groceries and she walked over and told me, "Jesus and your wife would appreciate some help". I told her, "Jesus would crush the bread, ask my wife". Stupid Jesus freaks!

Again, just because it felt so damn good to say it, STUPID JESUS FREAKS!

I think it's the idea of relating American Idol to religion that is creepy. And the idea of people walking around slipping pamphlets in random products that is creepy. Not so much the pamphlet itself.

I mean, why a BLENDER? Why not the Al Gore's latest book or a Britney Spears CD, or something else that would likely be used by someone who desperately needs "saved"? Is there something particularly blasphemous about blender owners that the pamphlet spreader found it imperative to place one in that particular product?

@coolkiwilivin: I am agnostic and I agree with you. People get way too bent out of shape about religion. One little thing, and they act like it is the end of the world.

Throw it away.
Take the item back.
Get over it.
Get a life.

is it Non News Weekend? or are you guys drinking early?

The question is...will it blend? Just think of it as bonus paper confete.

[www.willitblend.com]

The real question is, will it blend? Looking on the positive side, you got some free paper confete. Or will you go to hell for that? lawl

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@Michael Bauser:

... rofl.

I'm a Christian who used to enjoy D&D with some of my old friends. That Dark Dungeon comic was hilarity.