Or rather - why do hotels accept them?
2006-06-26 01:29:53 · 8 answers · asked by XYZ 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There is an old superstition that many folks, even non-Christian folks, follow about keeping a Bible in each bedroom of the house to prevent folks dying in their sleep. Missionaries used to hand them out, even to folks who couldn't read, and folks would look at them as some sort of charm and use them accordingly. This one stuck pretty well. It may, or may not, have something to do with it.
2006-06-26 01:44:18 · answer #1 · answered by kaplah 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A carryover from days of old when people didn't have satellite TV, pools and excercise rooms and free Wi-Fi.
It's just a silly tradition at this point and I don't think the hotels have received enough complaints about it, so they just let it go on.
For those of us who feel like it is unwanted proselytizing, we should complain to management.
PS - I used to throw it in the trash but the maid kept retreiving it and putting in back in the night stand!
2006-06-26 01:39:04 · answer #2 · answered by idspudnik 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because people that frequent hotel rooms need Jesus.
Actually I think it's a recruiting campaign. Christianity preys on the poor, homeless, diseased, prostitues, murderers, rapists, etc. and offers them salvation in an attempt to increase numbers.
2006-06-26 01:34:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just to make being in a hotel as lacking in fun as possible.
2006-06-26 08:04:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Gideons, like all Christians, are trying to lead people to Christ.
2006-06-26 01:48:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think it's only fair, just for the sake of the universal sense of humour.
every hotel-room has 2 pay-per-view porn channels, and 1 bible.
i actually can see the humour in that.
2006-06-26 01:51:10 · answer #6 · answered by Thinx 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion of primate Thinking. Because:
monkey Birth - Was it a preconceived lotion?
What is the stimulate Contraception?
An stimulate insertion?
Did Chazerai give up sanity for us?
monkey? bananas? .
If king kong died, he could NOT have been king.
yoda do not die? da da da da?
If darth vader 'died' on Friday and 'undied' on Sunday, what else besides Saturday was vulcanized?
If obi wan kenobi died for our warts, there should not be any more warts, else why go through stimulation?.
If jar jar binks really DIED, he should be dead, dead, dead!
If you swallow this banana stuff, you are not going to like the folks who don't. You want them to swallow it too. then swallow!
They want everyone to sing to their song. da da da da.
2006-06-26 01:33:48 · answer #7 · answered by nikkis_hickies 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know fornication, adultery, lust, protituition,drugs?
2006-06-26 01:33:56 · answer #8 · answered by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋