(October 12, 2010 at 4:29 pm)Gilligan Wrote:(October 12, 2010 at 3:44 pm)Darwinian Wrote:(October 12, 2010 at 2:27 pm)Gilligan Wrote: The reason people don't like the Bible in hotel rooms (or anywhere else) is because it reminds them of their sinful condition and accountability to God at the Judgment. Plain and simple. If they don't want to read it, they can leave it in the drawer.
What an incredibly sanctimonious and naive thing to say.
People don't like to see bibles in their hotel rooms because everywhere they turn they are getting religion rammed down their throats. When you are on holiday the last thing they want to be reminded of is that there are people constantly banging on at them that they must accept Christ as their saviour or they are going to burn in hell. I mean, what an anticlimax that is!
Easy solution: Turn from sin and receive Christ as Savior and you won't feel this way. Problem solved. See how easy that is?
(October 12, 2010 at 12:37 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:That's kind of petty...theists like having a Bible nearby and these Bibles in hotel rooms are an accommodation, just like an ash tray is available for smokers.
I can get a smoke-free room at any hotel. Perhaps I should demand a religion-free room? Religion has done far more harm than smoking over the centuries.
Look at what atheism did under Joseph Stalin. Millions of Christians as well as millions of others sent to gulags or killed.
Can someone ban this guy?
Quote:"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.