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by gbear605 2188 days ago
The problem is that if you’re categorizing by “what fraction of people think this is true,” you have to group the Bible with Darwin and antivaxxers. You can’t decree “we’re organizing by truthfulness” unless you’re okay with other people organizing with what they think is true.

On the other hand, if you group it by topic covered and style, the Bible gets sorted with history, which isn’t great but at least is reasonable. And then there’s also the category of religion that fits even better.

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Yes, the category of religion would fit better. Perhaps a categorization like: Religion > Religious texts > Bible > American Standard Version

However, some books might fit into multiple categorizations, depending on the type of categorization. (As one example, one type of categorization is Dewey Decimal System, so if you select the Dewey category then the subcategories will be the numeric categories, but the same book might also be found in other categories based on a different categorization scheme.)