They should keep a copy of every major religious text at the front desk and rent them out for a deposit but they shouldn't just leave them in each room.
Yes, every hotel should have its own library and every library should have accommodation to rent. Then everybody is happy : rolleyes :
If you're that religious surely you carry a copy of the bible with you when travelling anyway?
If you are religious surely you've read it anyway.
And as someone else said we are generally a secular country. I'm sure it is only the minority that have a faith. The rest of us just get on with our lives
I once watched nearly all of a porn film in a hotel, by flicking between it and the channel above......every time you changed back to it you got about 5-10 seconds before it turned off again.
I don't care about a bible being in a hotel room , but I might care about why they have Been removed . Pressure from Muslims ? . It " offends " them ? .
This is excellent news.
I have for some time, been removing the part about stoning homosexuals in honour of The Great Sir Ian Mckellan. It's oddly enjoyable, especially since I was raised Fundie.
His point that people shouldn't have their relationships condemned by death in print next to their bed is incredibly valid, although once I removed that I found so many other things that condemned normal sex I just chose that one thing as symbolic really.
The bibles are handy for last minute exorcisms. There are a few times I've found myself in a hotel room with a mad woman screaming that my mother sucks certain things in hell.
Maybe I should try using one of those paying dating sites instead.
I've always thought in this day and age it's odd that virtually every hotel room has a bible.
The tone of the article is interesting as well - again it seems to work on the assumption that the reader (and everybody) believes in a God and finds comfort in reading religious texts..
Last Travelodge that I stayed in had Jehovah's Witnesses outside handing out "What the Bible Says about..." booklets, if anyone needed a quick fix of religious texts.
I don't care about a bible being in a hotel room , but I might care about why they have Been removed . Pressure from Muslims ? . It " offends " them ? .
It took 35 posts before someone blamed the Muslims?
The Bibles, donated by the Gideon Society, have been retained and are stored behind reception for guests to borrow on request, the company says
It seems not all Travelodges even have Bibles available on request. At the branch in Battersea, south London, there was no Bible in the room or behind reception.
When requested, the receptionist could not find a copy and said no one had ever asked him for one in his four months of working there.Instead, he suggested using the hotel’s free wifi to ‘Google it and read it online’.
There you go - anybody wanting the bible in a travelodge can google it on their tablet.
I once attended a humanist wedding at a hotel, with quite a lot of secular society members attending.
We arrived quite late to find Bibles neatly lining the corridors outside people's bedrooms.
They'd obviously been ejected by the guests!
There also handy if you run out of toilet paper....
Maybe, but it could be a problem deciding what Book of the Bible one selects the pages from to wipe ones nether regions on —Matthew, Mark, Colossians, Titus or maybe Job:D
I don't care about a bible being in a hotel room , but I might care about why they have Been removed . Pressure from Muslims ? . It " offends " them ? .
No reason to think that. Travelodge just realised it was a waste of time supplying them.
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There also handy if you run out of toilet paper....
Well, The Daily Mail produces lies about 75% of the time, and it probably offends more people than bibles in hotel rooms do.
I certainly don't like using DM links for this reason, but it's their story in this instance.
Yes, every hotel should have its own library and every library should have accommodation to rent. Then everybody is happy : rolleyes :
I would, wouldn't you.
If you are religious surely you've read it anyway.
And as someone else said we are generally a secular country. I'm sure it is only the minority that have a faith. The rest of us just get on with our lives
I have for some time, been removing the part about stoning homosexuals in honour of The Great Sir Ian Mckellan. It's oddly enjoyable, especially since I was raised Fundie.
His point that people shouldn't have their relationships condemned by death in print next to their bed is incredibly valid, although once I removed that I found so many other things that condemned normal sex I just chose that one thing as symbolic really.
Maybe I should try using one of those paying dating sites instead.
Not at all, no.
I wouldn't even notice.
Plus you can get the entire Bible for free on the Android and Apple app store.
C'mon DS. You can do much better than this!
There you go - anybody wanting the bible in a travelodge can google it on their tablet.
We arrived quite late to find Bibles neatly lining the corridors outside people's bedrooms.
They'd obviously been ejected by the guests!
Maybe, but it could be a problem deciding what Book of the Bible one selects the pages from to wipe ones nether regions on —Matthew, Mark, Colossians, Titus or maybe Job:D
You can get an app for that.
I've tried reading the Bible but have never got past the first chapter.
That's what I think.
No reason to think that. Travelodge just realised it was a waste of time supplying them.
Maybe we can set up an organisation that does this. A sort of sex Gideons!
On the point of removing the bibles, who the hell is sad enough to get offended at some book tucked away in a drawer! Who even notices it?