Comments on: Gideons Bibles No More? http://www.intelliot.com/blog/archives/2007/11/14/gideons-bibles-no-more/ Thoughts, opinions and fascinating discoveries by Elliot, a student at USC Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:13:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Elliot Lee http://www.intelliot.com/blog/archives/2007/11/14/gideons-bibles-no-more/#comment-344936 Elliot Lee Sat, 17 Nov 2007 23:55:31 +0000 http://www.intelliot.com/blog/archives/2007/11/14/gideons-bibles-no-more/#comment-344936 I agree. But, at least sometimes, a hotel's decision to allow Bibles in their room could be taken almost as an endorsement. Don't they need to believe in the quality of the tourism magazines they include? Then again, maybe not... I agree. But, at least sometimes, a hotel’s decision to allow Bibles in their room could be taken almost as an endorsement. Don’t they need to believe in the quality of the tourism magazines they include? Then again, maybe not…

]]> By: katy http://www.intelliot.com/blog/archives/2007/11/14/gideons-bibles-no-more/#comment-343646 katy Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:00:51 +0000 http://www.intelliot.com/blog/archives/2007/11/14/gideons-bibles-no-more/#comment-343646 Gideon Bible Society started putting free Bibles in the hotels for the very reasons you stated - a good book for people to read when they are bored, and to keep them accountable from sin when they think they are away from home and no one is watching. Anytime you can get the Word of God available to people, I think it's a good thing. What harm would it do to place a best seller in your hotel room? Sure, some people would be "offended". But they don't have to read it, just like I don't read the tourist magazines that are placed in the hotel rooms. I am not offended that the tourism businesses are trying to get me to buy things from them. Some people say that since this is pluralistic society, if a Bible is in the hotel room, then there should also be a Koran, and other religious books. If a hotel wants to clutter their rooms with endless books, and if it's free to them, I don't have a problem with that. But to say you can't have a Bible there because other religious books are not represented doesn't make logical sense. Gideon Bible Society started putting free Bibles in the hotels for the very reasons you stated - a good book for people to read when they are bored, and to keep them accountable from sin when they think they are away from home and no one is watching.

Anytime you can get the Word of God available to people, I think it’s a good thing. What harm would it do to place a best seller in your hotel room? Sure, some people would be “offended”. But they don’t have to read it, just like I don’t read the tourist magazines that are placed in the hotel rooms. I am not offended that the tourism businesses are trying to get me to buy things from them.

Some people say that since this is pluralistic society, if a Bible is in the hotel room, then there should also be a Koran, and other religious books. If a hotel wants to clutter their rooms with endless books, and if it’s free to them, I don’t have a problem with that. But to say you can’t have a Bible there because other religious books are not represented doesn’t make logical sense.

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