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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/My_cats_leg on 2026-07-11 05:03:41+00:00.

One late night, I saw an advertisement on Facebook to get a free Book of Mormon in the mail. I thought it would be funny to read it, so I gave a suspicious-looking website a bunch of my info. At the end, a screen popped up pretty much saying, "Screw you for doing all of that, we are just going to send someone to your door to talk to you instead." (That person never showed up, BTW.)

This got me thinking: what religions will actually send you a free book by mail? I intended to look up multiple religions, but it was late enough that I only ended up browsing Christian Bible sites. I finally found one that claimed I could request up to 800 Bibles. Out of curiosity, I chose a safer, more realistic number: 250.

Next, the site asked for all this info, like what church I was affiliated with and what my intentions were. Thinking they would be pretty strict with the application, I chose a ridiculous name for my "church" and told them I would distribute the books to my closest followers.

A month passes and I completely forget about it—until one morning, a FedEx truck stops at my door and delivers two giant, heavy boxes addressed to the "PEE-WEE HERMAN CHURCH of GOSPEL."

Blown away, I opened the first box and saw half of my 250 travel-sized "Bibles," complete with shipping paperwork and a printout of an email they had sent me. It turns out I had received an email telling me my order was approved, but it went straight to my spam folder.

Upon closer inspection, the 250 books I have aren't actually full Bibles; they are a vague rundown of the Bible and some generic Christian text. Jesus's birth is only one sentence long.

I’ve contemplated throwing all of them out. I’ve donated several to my local little neighborhood libraries, but I have barely made a dent with them. I'm writing all of this to ask: what on earth do I do with probably 235 travel-sized Bibles dedicated to the Pee-Wee Herman Church of Gospel?

Do I donate them to a local mission, put them out at our garage sale, or see if Paul Reubens' ghost wants them? I'm genuinely not sure.

TL:DR Browsed a free Bible website while bored late at night, jokingly requested 250 of them under the fake name "Pee-Wee Herman Church of Gospel," and forgot about it. A month later, FedEx delivered two massive, heavy boxes to my door addressed to the fake church, and now I have 235 tiny, bootleg Bibles I don't know how to get rid of.