Recently read about Atheist groups trying to get hotels to remove the Gideon bibles from all the hotel’s rooms. I have to wonder in what way are they being injured by having that bible there? In every hotel I’ve been in it is unobtrusively placed in a drawer. It can’t hurt you. The hotel doesn’t pay for the Bible so it’s not like they up your bill. I just can’t understand this level of religiophobia and it strikes me as just another opportunity to act like an Asshole.
It’s favoring one religion at the exclusion of others. There is no reason for it to be there anyway.
Personally, I don’t really care that much, but if I notice its absence, I smile.
I don’t notice its presence or its absence. I already brought something to read.
I’d be curious to know what specific “atheist groups” actually give a shit about Bibles in hotel rooms.
Christians - Why do you ask for the Satanist tract in your hotel room to be removed? It isn’t harming anyone.
Honestly, they don’t bother this atheist at all. If I see them, at most I’ll chuckle at it. It’s kind of quaint.
But I have to wonder how you would react if, instead of the Bible, there was a copy of the Satanic Bible.
I’ve been to some that have it open on the nightstand. I assume it’s to a particular passage that they desire me to read, but I can’t say for sure since I just close it up and put it in the drawer.
I’ve never been especially upset about its presence, or pleased at its absence; I just ignore it.
Your and the previous similar analogy require Atheism to be (or contain, such as theism usually has religions as sub-categories) a religion, which is it and this statement proves it, but ‘you people’ like to claim it is not, so there you go.
First I’ve heard about it-It’s not like we’re unionized or meet up every Sunday. Which groups are supposedly doing this, and how widespread is it?
BTW, How fair would it be if I titled a thread “Christians why do you hate homosexuals?”?
Nonsense.
I ignore them also. But I do think we should give “equal time” to all religions. I’m already familiar with the bible so I’d continue to ignore it, but I would be very likely to pick up and read a Koran or a Torah.
I’m going to guess it’s:
Exodus 20:14 - Thou shalt not commit adultery.
(bolding mine)
You people?!?
What sort of bigoted remark is this?.. You people.
I never have. Nor have I had any problem with a Koran, which I’ve actually had in my room, or the mark designated which way for Muslims to pray. I wouldn’t even care if there was a copy of a book by Richard Dawkins. Books can’t hurt me.
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So, where did you hear about this, and why would you associate it with atheists in general?
I have two family bibles in my house, finding one in a hotel room is just quaint.
The Torah is part of the Bible, specifically the first five books.
And I am an atheist and I don’t give a shit either way about Bibles being in a drawer in a room.
Not true at all. Just showing that Christians would take offense to having something like that in their room. Most atheists wouldn’t be nearly as upset (if at all) about having a bible in their room, as a christian would be for having a satan’s bible in theirs.
If atheists were going to try to push anything into hotel rooms, it would be science textbooks.
The problem with the equal time is that the Gideon’s are paying money to have those bibles printed and placed. If another religion or even atheists want to put a book in the room that’s fine, they just have to pay for it.
Nonsense. It proves nothing of the sort, but merely asks how the OP would react to encountering a book that’s often represented (not by Satanists) as the “opposite” of the Bible. The book in question could just as easily been the Quran, the Book of Mormon (which you will find in some hotels), the Vedas, or the Popul Vuh.