So Long, Gideons

I am saddened that they are removing the bible, as my last hotel room had a fireplace, and the crumpled pages of it makes a great fire starter. Religion is nothing more than a crutch for emotional weaklings. It was created by men as a way to control the masses by fright and other terroristic methods. All perveyors of the myth that is religion should be taxed just like any other form of fictional entertainment. Throughout recorded history, more murders have been committed in the name of religion than for any other reason. Since they insist upon infesting politics with thier narrow mindedness, they should be fully taxed.

I tell you what! I run a hotel for a living and would NOT run any hotel without the word of GOD in every room. It is to HIM alone for my wonderful gift of hotel knowledge, I pray everyday for my guest, staff, and ownership. I will not allow this in at least one!

Let the market decide this one. People of faith - let your hotel chain of choice know that this matters to you. Stay at the hotels that continue to stock Bibles. Avoid the ones that don't. Ask the question when you are making your reservations. You can tilt this back in the right direction. Tom Paine, Dayton, Ohio.

I was wondering if the only hotels to stop providing bibles were the hotels that now provide sex-related items. I doubt this- - more likely, this story has a Christian slant that brings morality into the issue. By saying Bibles are being replaced by condoms and sex-toys, the article trys to scare Christians into thinking morality is going downhill. I am sure other hotels (that don't promote sex) are considering getting rid of the bibles. Christians shouldn't worry about this hurting morality- it is more of a move by companies to avoid favoring a particular religion over another, or favoring the religious over the secular. I think the real problem was that they put bibles into every room in the first place, thus alienating all types of non-Christians and placing their values in your drawer.

So you're telling me that not only are hotels getting rid of the Bibles in the drawers, but they're replacing them with complimentary sex toys? Does this strike anyone else as a MAJOR degradation in the morals of people? I am one of the new generation that the hotels are playing to, and I don't know if its the demographic of the area that I live in, but out here in the midwest, the Bible is not dead, but actually making a resurgence among college and high school students. Perhaps in other parts of the nation it is not so much, but here the come-back has started. Take a look at the churches of today, The majority of the congregation is either Elderly or the College-age, very few baby boomers are in attendance. I believe that the looseness of the sixties and seventies led to a decay in religion and that is having major adverse effects on today.

Actually, what is needed is for Christians to live what they believe. How else is God going to work in society. This issue simply represents the fruits of abortion, divorce, pornography, and other excesses that our society has chosen. And they've chosen it because Christians engage in abortion, divorce, pornography, and other excesses so they're wondering what is the difference. Boycotting hotels is no answer as they're not there to provide religion; nor should anyone expect such. It's been great to have a bible in every room for the past 100 years, but now that's over. And it's over because Christians have not been the example in the marketplace they should be... What is really needed is for Christians to impact their world for Jesus. Will I choose a licentious hotel over one that does not cater to general depravity? Yeppers - as I have the choice. Maybe God will want me to stay in a licentious hotel anyways because he is up to something and he chooses to work through humans and he wants me to be somewhere to help someone. So let's focus on bringing glory and honor to God and less on blaming hotels for not carrying Bibles as if they're to blame. It's sad of course, but even more sad is what this article represents regarding Christians. Some things never change as noted by the rise and fall and rise and fall and rise and fall and so on of the Israelites in the old testament. That is why our world needs a Savior today. Judgment is coming soon enough for all of us. Today mercy is freely available for all who choose to receive it. Let's show the hotels what real Christianity means and then the Bibles will return once more. Keep it real!

The next time you visit a hotel, check to see if the Bible is there. If not, call the desk and ask for one. If they can't or won't comply, check back out or let them know why you won't be staying with them again. The law of supply and demand is still alive in the 21st century, folks. Ask and ye shall receive.

One, feel really sorry for those who do not believe in God, who are holding onto as the world decends into hell? I suppose the bible like goodness and morality and care for your fellow human being are out of fashion. I really feel sorry for you guys when we who know there is a God are gone who will you turn to when it blows up in your face and you find out you where wrong.

how very sad,how many lives people have not committed suicide because there was a Gideon bible by their bed in a strange hotel. How many families have been restored. I really feel sorry for those who don't have the strength of god to fall back on espceidally since we live in a world going to hell.

Personally, I am glad that this thing is disappearing. I never liked seeing a Bible in the side table in my hotel room. It creeped me out and a few times, I told the housekeeper to take this out of my room until I was gone and checked out.

I'm an Atheist, and I don't like seeing a reminder of a religion that I think is evil in my bedroom and especially not beside my head while I am sleeping.

Or you could just replace the corrupted, mistranslated Bible with copies of the Talmud, the Kabbalah, the Tao te Ching, the Vedas, and the Greek, Roman, and Eqyptian mythologies. Since the Bible is basically a badly put together stolen mish-mash of mixed up mythologies and spiritual concepts from these sources.

Actually, just the Tao would be enough, and far more enjoyable to read, Truth and Beauty without all the hysterical violence, contradictory statements, laughable "history" and pseudo-spirituality..

Why should we take the Bible out of our hotels? Let's not be ridiculous. I am in the 10th grade so I'm not like "Old-Fashioned", but I am a Christian, and the people that aren't shouldn't leave their things, and if they aren't Christian, they should seriously pick up the BIBLE that SHOULD be provided in the room and READ IT!