Bibles in hotel rooms

UDP

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.

muletide

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

Chazz Michael Michaels

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.

UDP

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?

ampmm

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

Zombrex

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

Hotblack Desiato

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.

Lucy8080

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.

ShooterSF

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.

Custardpi

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 .

robindch

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

Chazz Michael Michaels

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

PopePalpatine

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.

Chazz Michael Michaels

No escaping it, really.

GoldenTickets

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.

Miss Lockhart

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?

Custardpi

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.

Andrewf20

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.

Dades

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

/makes mental note

Lingua Franca

I sign 'em.

Thanks for reading! Love, God x

kylith

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.

baalthor

Marriott hotels also have the Book of Mormon

MagicMarker

Comes in handy when the bog roll runs out.

NS77

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?

PopePalpatine

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

robindch

Buy a bag of these stickers:

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

seamus

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.

lazygal

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


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

Morag

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

Custardpi

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

Dades

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.

Morag

I prefer the Sith code

Peace is a lie, there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.'
Through victory, my chains are broken.
The Force shall free me.

I used to leaf through the old testament and find some random nonsense like how to treat mildew and put a dog ear on it. That or the story of Lot was a favorite one.

Sarky

Morag wrote: »

I prefer the Sith code

That always struck me as a far more accurate portrayal of reality. I never quite understood how it led to the dark side because it's pretty reasonable stuff. Or maybe I'm just a sith lord already and wouldn't realise it?

PopePalpatine

Sarky wrote: »

That always struck me as a far more accurate portrayal of reality. I never quite understood how it led to the dark side because it's pretty reasonable stuff. Or maybe I'm just a sith lord already and wouldn't realise it?

[husky voice]Good...let the hate flow through you...[/husky voice]

*cough* I'm going to need a drink after that.

Bannasidhe

I just take 'em home with me so I always have a Bible to lend to Catholics. No way would I actually pay for one.

Morag

Roman Catholics aren't meant to use them as the Gideons are a sect onto themselves.

Sarky

They're so small, how is anyone meant to find the space to highlight the inaccuracies and inconsistencies in them?

PopePalpatine

B-b-but context!

Custardpi

Morag wrote: »

Roman Catholics aren't meant to use them as the Gideons are a sect onto themselves.

So that would be an ecumenical matter, eh?

Morag

Sarky wrote: »

They're so small, how is anyone meant to find the space to highlight the inaccuracies and inconsistencies in them?

You should see the pocket editions they distribute in schools.
They get invited in give one to all the students talk about how the 'word of the Lord' can help teens and show of the marked passages and then the teachers tell the kids to keep them in their bags.