Hotels Replacing Bibles With "Intimacy Kits"

"les_on_usenet" wrote in message
...

I spent two nights in a hotel in Tangier once and do not
recall seeing a Koran in our room. We were woken up early
in the morning by loudspeakers outside calling us to prayers
though.

They're not usually distributed in hotels frequented by foreigners as the
Koran is supposedly best read in classical Arabic. The loudspeakers probably
weren't calling *you* specifically to prayer. Here we have a Shi'a mosque a
few doors away that uses a range of talented voices that I either stop and
listen to, or after several years of living in countries with significant
Muslim populations, sleep right through - especially through the fajr at
dawn.

Cheers,
George W Russell
Bangalore

On Nov 28, 10:47�pm, Lord Calvert wrote:
On Nov 28, 10:39 pm, Craig Welch wrote:

Sound of Trumpet said:

But the wholesale removal of the Bibles was too much for the
Mississippi-based American Family Association.

It would be, wouldn't it?

Never mind 'giving customers what they want' ...

Well, you know how much evangelical Christians hate free-market
capitalism. They would rather centrally control what products and
services businesses can provide, as the ideologically similar
communists do.

Evangelical Christianity is just Stalinism with more elaborate
ceremonies.

Rich Goranson
Amherst, NY, USA
aa#MCMXCIX, a-vet#1
EAC Department of Cruel and Unusual Choreography

I respect non Christians immensely because their belief system is as
personal to them as mine is me. Having said that, this has to be imo
one of the lamest posts I have ever read anywhere. What some people
won't do with their hate and rage to make a statement. The funny
thing is maybe five people in total have read it. I just grasp
someone's hate for anything as good as Christianity. When I think of
the Red Cross, Salvation Army and other Christians groups that have
sent food and goods overseas in my heart I know they're a basically
good people. Like any movement you have your fake Christians and
charlatans. It even says that in the Bible. I always remember Man is
not perfect and never will be.

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:30:29 +0000, les_on_usenet
wrote:

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:18:22 -0500, Pastor Dave
wrote:

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:52:04 -0700, JA_MORAN
said the following:


well if the hotels are going to be "neutral" they should get bibles out
of rooms unless requested or make books from other religons available
upon request, When you make your reservation, you should be able to
choose what religious book, or none at all is in your room...

The Gideons are the ones offering free Bibles.
Have you seen any Muslims doing that with
the Quran?

I spent two nights in a hotel in Tangier once and do not
recall seeing a Koran in our room.

Heh. Been there many times. And still recall little about it.

Yes. It's that good!

We were woken up early
in the morning by loudspeakers outside calling us to prayers
though.

Think of it as the beginning of a classic Queen track...

That said and FWIW, I think that it's *incredibly* unlikely that the
Qu'ran would be spread around as the Bible is distributed through the
Gideons et al, not least because as we have all gathered, many Muslims
take their Holy Book incredibly seriously, and allowing the
possibility of having it treated in a disrespectful way as say hotel
distribution would allow would be thought to be - at least by those
who are in principle able to pay for the distribution - unacceptable.

Mind you, I'm rather with Pratchett on this.

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:20:03 +0000, Therion Ware wrote:

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:30:29 +0000, les_on_usenet
wrote:

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:18:22 -0500, Pastor Dave
wrote:

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:52:04 -0700, JA_MORAN said the
following:


well if the hotels are going to be "neutral" they should get bibles
out of rooms unless requested or make books from other religons
available upon request, When you make your reservation, you should be
able to choose what religious book, or none at all is in your room...

The Gideons are the ones offering free Bibles. Have you seen any
Muslims doing that with the Quran?

I spent two nights in a hotel in Tangier once and do not recall seeing a
Koran in our room.

Heh. Been there many times. And still recall little about it.

Yes. It's that good!

Reminds me of when I said anybody who remember Mardi Gras wasn't there...

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EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
------------------------------------------------------------
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to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin to slit throats.�

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On Nov 29, 8:11Â*am, Gator Slayer wrote:
On Nov 28, 10:47�pm, Lord Calvert wrote:





On Nov 28, 10:39 pm, Craig Welch wrote:

Sound of Trumpet said:

But the wholesale removal of the Bibles was too much for the
Mississippi-based American Family Association.

It would be, wouldn't it?

Never mind 'giving customers what they want' ...

Well, you know how much evangelical Christians hate free-market
capitalism. They would rather centrally control what products and
services businesses can provide, as the ideologically similar
communists do.

Evangelical Christianity is just Stalinism with more elaborate
ceremonies.

Rich Goranson
Amherst, NY, USA
aa#MCMXCIX, a-vet#1
EAC Department of Cruel and Unusual Choreography

I respect non Christians immensely because their belief system is as
personal to them as mine is me. Â*Having said that, this has to be imo
one of the lamest posts I have ever read anywhere. Â*What some people
won't do with their hate and rage to make a statement. Â*The funny
thing is maybe five people in total have read it. Â*I just grasp
someone's hate for anything as good as Christianity. Â*When I think of
the Red Cross, Salvation Army and other Christians groups that have
sent food and goods overseas in my heart I know they're a basically
good people. Â*Like any movement you have your fake Christians and
charlatans. Â*It even says that in the Bible. Â*I always remember Man is
not perfect and never will be.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Red Cross is Secular. It was supposed to be a reverse color version of
the Swiss flag..to symbolize neutrality. I would not support it with
my donations were it not secular.

Hatter

On Nov 29, 3:52 am, JA_MORAN wrote:


I love it when I am sitting waiting for a plane and either someone
playing a deaf mute comes and tries to get money or a religious person
hands somehting out. There are also the "sisters" and others who stand
by the escalator wanting money

I work in a government building and every payday they flank the single
exit with their begging baskets

Hatter

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:30:29 +0000, les_on_usenet
wrote:

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:18:22 -0500, Pastor Dave
wrote:

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:52:04 -0700, JA_MORAN
said the following:


well if the hotels are going to be "neutral" they should get bibles out
of rooms unless requested or make books from other religons available
upon request, When you make your reservation, you should be able to
choose what religious book, or none at all is in your room...

The Gideons are the ones offering free Bibles.
Have you seen any Muslims doing that with
the Quran?

I spent two nights in a hotel in Tangier once and do not
recall seeing a Koran in our room. We were woken up early
in the morning by loudspeakers outside calling us to prayers
though.

You wouldn't. Moslems have a whole flock of rules about how to handle
the Koran, similar to Americans with the flag, and one of them is that
a non-believer may not handle a copy.



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Somehow, the title of this thread reminded me that many of the hotels
in Utah come supplied with a copy of the Book of Mormon.

In article Sound of Trumpet writes:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1927602/posts




Hotels replacing Bibles with new 'intimacy kits'


Replacing Gideons with get-it-ups?


Good.

-- cary

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 04:38:52 -0800 (PST), Nosterill
wrote:

On Nov 29, 3:14 am, Sound of Trumpet
wrote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1927602/posts

Hotels replacing Bibles with new 'intimacy kits'

WorldNetDaily ^ | 11/15/07 | WorldNetDaily

Posted on 11/18/2007 2:10:16 PM PST by wagglebee

Hotel chains are removing Bibles from guest rooms, replacing them with
"intimacy kits" and adding "One Night Stand" packages as well as
"romance concierge" personnel to their offerings, according to a new
report in Newsweek.

Anyone who actually wants to read the bible when they are staying in a
hotel (a tiny minority, I should imagine) is perfectly entitled to
take their own. I would be somewhat surprised if such folk didn't
always have one with them anyway.

The Bibles in hotel rooms don't belong o the hotel, anyway. They
are distributed by the Gideons International. To be religiously
fair, the hotel should also allow the Mormons to stick a Book of
Mormon in rooms. And the Muslims the Quran, and....

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