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Bibles In Hotels
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misanthropic_clown
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Because some Christians put them there so that if and when you get bored, or you happen to be in that hotel as some part of a journey of self discovery, you can read it and decide whether you want to be Christian too.
TurkeyOnRye
Well-Known Member
I wonder if hotels would allow messengers to place The God Delusion or The Satanic Bible.
misanthropic_clown
Active Member
Hell, why not have a little religious library bookshelf?
Or why not the Necronomicon? (yeah, I know it's not real, but there are fakes all over the place)
Smoke
Done here.
Because when you're traveling you may not know where to buy cigarette papers?
misanthropic_clown
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gnomon
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Some hotel chains now offer a smorgasbourd...smorgasbord...a cornucopia of religious texts to pick from. Well, maybe not that many but at least the most popular.
As long as the hotel has doughnuts who cares?
Anyway, here's some info from a biased source...
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20080325/31678_Edgy_Hotel_Offers_'Spiritual_Menu'_to_Guests.htm
Apparently, the lack of Gideon's service being provided in these hotels will lead to the demoralization of this nation. As if...
As long as the hotel has doughnuts who cares?
Anyway, here's some info from a biased source...
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20080325/31678_Edgy_Hotel_Offers_'Spiritual_Menu'_to_Guests.htm
Apparently, the lack of Gideon's service being provided in these hotels will lead to the demoralization of this nation. As if...
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I'm sure it's well-meaning, and I can't say it bothers me at all. Hotel rooms have all sorts of amenities -- like pornography, coffee makers, and hair dryers -- that aren't useful to me but are probably useful to other people.
I'd really expect a person who enjoys reading the Bible to travel with a Bible, though. I do, and I don't even believe in it. I think the Gideons have this idea that one day a lonely and desperate traveling salesman or prostitute will pick up one of their Bibles and thereby make a divine connection and be delivered from a life of sin and shame. And I'm sure there are stories out there of exactly that kind of thing happening.
Starfish
Please no sarcasm
I can imagine that if it did that for one person, then they would feel all those Bibles were worth it.
McBell
Unbound
I agree.
Something I find rather annoying are the one who complain about the Bible being there at all.
It isn't like there is someone in their room forcing them to read it at gun point.
Katzpur
Not your average Mormon
I've never used the coffee maker I've found in a hotel room, and I guess I've never bothered bothered looking for the porn.
As far as I'm personally concerned, I'd rather find a Bible than either of those two things. But if I ever stay in a hotel without a hair dryer, somebody's gonna be dead meat.
logician
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Evangelism.
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Done here.
Like I said, hotels have to accommodate all kinds of people.I've never used the coffee maker I've found in a hotel room, and I guess I've never bothered bothered looking for the porn.
The only time I've ever actually looked for the porn was at the Marriott, because I wanted to see if it was just an urban legend that they offered it.
The one amenity I'm really interested in is a refrigerator. I like to have a cold Diet Coke at hand when I wake up.
Runt
Well-Known Member
Amen to that!
There are magazines in doctors' offices, I wonder if they were put there to promote the media.