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Bibles in hotel rooms

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  • 02-03-2013 11:35pm
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    UDP
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    Anyone find it strange that hotels still have bibles in hotel rooms?

    Am in Belfast in a hotel and just spotted one beside the bed. Is it just a tradition/decoration or do some people expect or use them?

    Stayed in a place down in cork recently and they had 5 or so books (novels etc) in each room which I thought was a good idea but I don't get why they would spend money on bibles instead.


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    muletide
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    They are placed there by Gideons. The hotel don't pay anything


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    Chazz Michael Michaels
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    UDP wrote: »
    Anyone find it strange that hotels still have bibles in hotel rooms?

    Am in Belfast in a hotel and just spotted one beside the bed. Is it just a tradition/decoration or do some people expect or use them?

    Stayed in a place down in cork recently and they had 5 or so books (novels etc) in each room which I thought was a good idea but I don't get why they would spend money on bibles instead.

    I think they are donated.


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    UDP
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    muletide wrote: »
    They are placed there by Gideons. The hotel don't pay anything
    Lol, it actually says "placed by the gideons" on the front cover. Do they just send them to the hotel or does anyone know how it works?


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    ampmm
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    UDP wrote: »
    Lol, it actually says "placed by the gideons" on the front cover. Do they just send them to the hotel or does anyone know how it works?

    Ramada? Sure if you were that into reading it would ya not bring it with you


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    Zombrex
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    UDP wrote: »
    Anyone find it strange that hotels still have bibles in hotel rooms?

    Am in Belfast in a hotel and just spotted one beside the bed. Is it just a tradition/decoration or do some people expect or use them?

    Stayed in a place down in cork recently and they had 5 or so books (novels etc) in each room which I thought was a good idea but I don't get why they would spend money on bibles instead.

    I always found it annoying, but then modern hotel rooms are full of junk advertising things these days (Bob's Pizza, Harry's Bus Tours etc), so I suppose one more piece of junk advertising something is to be expected :P


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    Hotblack Desiato
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    AFAIK the Gideons are quite happy for you to take the bible away with you if you are so inclined :)

    Like pay per view porn, it's just another in-room service I've not been tempted to indulge in, but others may proceed as they wish.

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    Lucy8080
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    I like it. It's free, i can take it or leave it,...i can even put my undies in the same drawer.

    I like books.


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    ShooterSF
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    I draw dicks on the pages. I know it's childish but I just find it amusing to think of the kind of person that sits in their hotel room reading the bible finding them.


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    Custardpi
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    UDP wrote: »
    Lol, it actually says "placed by the gideons" on the front cover. Do they just send them to the hotel or does anyone know how it works?

    Gideons are ninjas, you never see them. My hobby is staying in hotels & trying to catch them in the act. No luck as yet though :(.


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    robindch
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    Not every hotel, er, bends down and opens its drawers to the Gideons:

    http://www.nbcnews.com/travel/hotel-replaces-bibles-fifty-shades-grey-907496


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    Chazz Michael Michaels
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    I usually have a quick read of them. A book is a book.


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    PopePalpatine
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    Custardpi wrote: »
    Gideons are ninjas, you never see them. My hobby is staying in hotels & trying to catch them in the act. No luck as yet though :(.

    I saw them once...in my own school, handing out copies of the New Testament when I was in 1st year. I thought my school was called a "community school" because it didn't endorse any religion - how wrong was I. :(


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    Chazz Michael Michaels
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    No escaping it, really.


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    GoldenTickets
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    Custardpi wrote: »
    Gideons are ninjas, you never see them. My hobby is staying in hotels & trying to catch them in the act. No luck as yet though :(.

    Bill? I thought you were dead.


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    Miss Lockhart
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    It's not something I would worry about because it's not forced upon me, but I do think it's strange. Hotels routinely remove books and other items left behind by guests during cleaning do why leave this book?


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    Custardpi
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    PopePalpatine wrote: »
    I saw them once...in my own school, handing out copies of the New Testament when I was in 1st year. I thought my school was called a "community school" because it didn't endorse any religion - how wrong was I. :(

    Hopefully it was the King James version at least - recommended by Richard Dawkins.


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    Andrewf20
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    I dont have a bible of my own but when I come across it in hotels im actually glad of the opportunity to give it a read even if I am agnostic. I find it interesting to see what its all about.


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    Dades
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    It would be cool to carve out the shape of a rock hammer in the pages of one.

    /makes mental note


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    Lingua Franca
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    I sign 'em.

    Thanks for reading! Love, God x


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    kylith
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    One thing I do like about the Gideons is that their bibles are very well thought out. IIRC they have a list of moods at the front (Sad, hopeless, joyous etc) and then they give page references for suitable bible verses to, say, uplift you if you're feeling down. I think that's nice of them.


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    baalthor
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    Marriott hotels also have the Book of Mormon


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    MagicMarker
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    Comes in handy when the bog roll runs out.


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    NS77
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    I often though there should be an atheist version of Gideons, placing "The God Delusion" in hotel rooms around the world.... who's with me?


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    PopePalpatine
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    But we aren't funded by deep-pocketed fundies. :(


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    robindch
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    Buy a bag of these stickers:

    http://www.zazzle.com/bible_warning_sticker-217586842335457670

    243576.jpg


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    seamus
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    I imagine they draft in the cleaners for this. Box of bibles on the cleaning trolley, if there's no bible there, in it goes.


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    lazygal
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    I wonder do other faiths ask them to be removed? Has anyone requested a bible free room?


    ....ponders this as going away this weekend........


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    Morag
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    I make my room a bible free room by sticking it outside the door.


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    Custardpi
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    Any Star Wars nerds on here? What's the Jedi equivalent of the Bible? I feel an idea coming on....


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    Dades
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    Custardpi wrote: »
    Any Star Wars nerds on here? What's the Jedi equivalent of the Bible? I feel an idea coming on....
    That'd be the Jedi Code.
    There is no emotion, there is peace.
    There is no ignorance, there is knowledge.
    There is no passion, there is serenity.
    There is no chaos, there is harmony.
    There is no death, there is the Force.


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