Why is the bible in hotels

EU Data Subject Requests. Bibles are disappearing from hotel drawers around the country, according to a survey from STR, a hospitality analytics company. Related article: What you need to know about your hotel room kettle. In , almost every single hotel 95 percent put a Bible in their bedside drawer. Today that number is only 79 percent. Most major hotel franchises allow individual hotel owners to decide whether or not to stock their drawers with religious scripture.

And as more hotel chains aim to attract Millennial travelers, they are taking Bibles out of their rooms. Related article: Why you should think twice before using a hotel hair dryer. And although ditching hotel Bibles may seem like a youthful move, the concept of the in-drawer Bible is actually only about a century old.

And this is the group putting Bibles in hotel rooms. Stocking a Bible in hotel rooms may not be about hospitality at all, but rather a method to inculcate people into Christianity. Many people interviewed for this article appeared comforted knowing that there was a Bible in their hotel room, regardless of whether they opened the nightstand drawer and paged through the text.

In many ways, the proximity to the ancient scripture seemed to ease the anxiety of being in an unfamiliar place, the way a security blanket helps a person feel safe falling asleep at night. Anna Renault , a year-old writer, is a strong proponent of keeping Bibles in hotel rooms for a reason her grandmother once told her: the books were there for people who checked in for the purpose of committing suicide.

Suicide in hotel rooms is not uncommon. Less intimate than a home, a hotel room also provides fewer emotional distractions. A few years ago, during one of the most difficult periods in my life, a Gideon Bible helped bring me back from the many dark and hopeless thoughts that went through my mind that day in a lonely hotel room. I give thanks to my Lord and God for using such means to deliver me from my sins. The bible is always great when your at the end of your rope.

The Gideons need to work extra hard to overcome. I read the bible cover to cover. Fun book though. To each his own. Your reading the Bible cover to cover and then saying your an atheist? There has been more than one atheist that has given up on such a foolish quest to try to prove that Jesus Christ was not real, and if you really ever do read AND understand AND retain what is written in the Bible, cover to cover, you will prove to yourself that God is real and Jesus Christ is our savior.

Fun Book? Now, start reading again, there is still time for you. So I just open it and read something at random. The Gideon Bibles have gotten me, and many people I know, through very difficult times. What makes them so great is the page in front that lists the various problems you might be having, and gives suggested Bible readings. Funny thing is, I used newspapers to start my charcoal when I want to cook out.

Since newspapers are all about bad news and the fire is what is waiting for those whom end up in hell, they seem to go together quite well. Oh, bad things do come to bad people in the Bible, that should be a clear warning to everyone. Probably because the religious will leave no stone unturned to make everyone as vulnerable as they are. I still have the Bible I received in that was presented to all entering cadets at West Point — by the Gideons.

Just shows to go you that all you need to supply a comment in a forum such as this is a computer, not a brain. Kenny, Sok Pupette, Techni, and Jim, try growing a brain before your next submission. Anyone who tries to convert another human being to their way of thinking should be crapped on and often. Their presence keeps me from having to lug my own in my luggage. And sometimes a paper book is more enjoyable to read from than my iPad. I appreciate the Gideons supplying such good material.

And I find the intolerance of those who would destroy Bibles to be quite sad. Its not likely someone burned one because that would tend to set off fire alarms, and firefighters are not going to be amused by such vandalism.

Here in Japan you often find a Gideon Bible and a copy of the Buddhist scriptures. The haters do come out of the wood work. When I travel I regularly read the Gideon bible in my hotel room and I know several others who do to. Why ridicule or seek to suppress an innocent practice. A few years ago I began to write my own thoughts in a bible that appears untouched hoping that someone else does the same thing as I do. Too bad there are so many critics of the Bible.

Perhaps, if the time were taken to read this great book, and the advice given were followed, one would really benefit from its teachings. It works for me! Thanks Gideons!!!! Lovepareek, you can try to contact them. I have copied the following details from their website: The Gideons International is ready to serve you. You may contact our International Headquarters at , by emailing us at [email protected].

Liberal college professors do that to our young people in college at or expense everyday. People with a closed minds are afraid to listen to both sides of the aisle and just mock those who think different from them. What happened to free speech and exchange of ideas in this so called democratic society? I personally am very thankful for the bibles in hotel rooms. I cannot begin to tell you how many times I have run out of zigzags in a strange place, and no-one misses one page, and I get free rolling papers.

May God bless you all! Which God? It is really wonder how the word of God Bible reached every corner of the World and reform their life. Gideon is done good for the needy. For the hopeless ya mean. Who but the hopeless turns to something of blind faith with no evidence to make them feel better. And why a bible? Why not some other religion? How arrogant is that? What about a science book instead? The motive for this act would not be to save people from burning hell fire but to give people the opportunity to become more scientificly literate and become more educated about some of the most important ideas in science.

If religious groups have the right to do this then so do more secular groups. It would not offend me in the least what you want to place in a hotel room or any other room.

God gives us a free will to choose to believe in HIM or not. After all why would he not ,he created us. Where do you think we came from?

For all the folks who want to take shots at the bible try actually reading it before jumping to conclusions. Why is it the most read book in the history of the world? HMM I wonder if there is more to the bible than the from cover Choose what you want to read God gives you that freedom, but choose wisely because when this world comes to an end as it talks about in the bible there will be consequences.

When all you know is God God is all you have. I was not a christian till October , but before that whatever hotel room I was in I always used to have a look through a Gideons Bible if I was on my own and it would always help me find some peace….

It is a good thing what the Gideons do, because I suspect most people do not carry bibles and I often wondered where and how all these bibles came to be in hotels and how it was paid for…. All religions based on the governance of supreme beings give reason for the weak minds to hide themselves behind poor excuses for their way of life.

Hard believers cannot understand, and do not give themselves the opportunity to understand, the logics that really govern their surroundings, be it tiny or universal.

Ask yourself, what is more scary : one who thinks there is heaven and hell and who will gladly die for it, or thinks that when you die, you vanish into nothingness? The great majority fear the second, thus vote for the first.

When you finally catch that the greatest instincts of all and every form of life on earth is survival and procreation, you start to understand why intelligent beings, humans, find all ways imaginable to explain the unknown and thus calm down their instinctual fear of meaningless lives and nothingness. Someone above asked why atheists prefer to stay anonymous? Easy answer, the greatest atrocities in human history are all born from the stupidity of large groups of people thinking themselves superior under their radical beliefs, aka, religions.

As an atheist, my instinct of preservation makes me fear throngs of idealogical yet empty minded followers. Brand the unbeliever! Burn the heretics! Destroy everyone who does not agree with you! Yay for religions! The Bible is left in a drawer to be available to anyone who may want to read it. It always amazes me how many people are offended by the beliefs of complete strangers.

Why would you be offended by something that does you no harm and brings comfort to someone else? You must have really big dorms in these hotels! Yes, I have counted single people staying in each rooms, not all the rooms are hired all the time, couples probably have other things to do. I always call ahead to make sure the hotels I stay at have a Gideon Bible in the room.

Extremely handy as a source for rolling papers. The Bible is probably the most important book ever to have existed. Love the story of the gideons. Amazing how they stock every single hotel that is built.

A lovely piece of history in each room! As an atheist I suggest everyone reads it. It will only deepen your atheism or make you feel warm and fuzzy if you are a Christian I guess. I travel a lot and whenever I find a bible I discard it. I have removed over In most cases, I replace it with a book I had recently finished. To my delight, I have been in rooms where previous occupants appeared to have done the same thing.

God bless all of you people who want to get rid of the Bible by burning a Bible. We still love Jesus and He still loves you and Jesus is Lord! The Holy Spirit lives in us, not in a Bible that you can burn!

Have a great and blessed day! God is so great humans had to invent their own medicines for cures. If you read the Bible you will find that all of what has happened in the past and is happening today is foretold in the Bible.

Your are free to dismiss or accept. All will have at least one chance and it could possibly be the only chance you will have to accept it. You who deny have no proof to back your atheist views, only opinions.