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.
Christians have a book of records. We all make mistakes but you who call yourselves atheists, are going straight over cliffs into hell, if you are wrong! Nothing in the Bible about an offer of a second chance to disbelievers! A burning and eternal punishment. You were warned. This may be that one and only chance to accept the Bible. Ever make a mistake? The body of knowledge we now have flies in the face of archaic dogma, so of course they seek to recruit as many converts as possible.
So, a book that advocates the subjugation of women is placed in the rooms of places that provide shelter to victims of said subjugation? Compare how the men in the Bible treated their wives back then to how most muslims and even atheists treat their wives today, and your ridiculous case goes out the window.
According to what I understand it is often individual hotel owners that are more responsive to having Gideon Bibles placed in hotel drawers while the chains may not be quite as open. Since they are donated the hotel guest does not pay for it being there. The Truth remains the Truth, regardless of who, or how many, accept or reject it. No one comes to the Father, except thru Me.
We must each decide for ourselves. Jesus said there is life after life. We must each decide. Choices have consequences. So those that miss the bedside Bible can now instead browse a digital version of whichever scripture they prefer. Cailey Rizzo. By Cailey Rizzo October 31, Save Pin FB More. Credit: Getty Images.
In , they decided the goal of this association would be to unite traveling salesman for evangelism. They realized placing Bibles in hotel rooms would be a great way to increase evangelism and bring peace and comfort to lonely travelers.
Unfortunately, the original location the Superior Hotel burned down in December However, there is a commemorative plaque on the site of the original hotel. Whether you can take one of the Bibles with you is sort of a gray area. Others would say that by taking the Bible you are preventing other travelers from using it while on the road which cuts against the goal of the Gideons. It is estimated that each Bible placed in a hotel room can reach up to 2, people and that they have about a six year lifespan.
Typically, Gideons distribute the King James Version of the Bible, so it is not some special version or obscure translation of the Bible. The only thing that is really different is that there are some special pages at the front of the Bible where you might be able to find specific Bible verses for your times of need and some short messages about salvation.
In case you were not clear, hotels do not pay for the Bibles. According to some reports, as of they had distributed over 2 billion Bibles and it is estimated that they distribute more than two copies of the Bible per second! Both explanations are probably valid but the next time you come across a Bible in your nightstand you might want to open it up just in case.
The decision on whether or not to include a Bible in a hotel room is typically made by the owner of the hotel but that is not always the case. If you were not aware, many hotel properties are not owned by the major hotel chains like Hyatt, Hilton and InterContinental Hotels Group. Instead, there are franchise agreements and the owners of the hotels are responsible for managing the hotels and making operational decisions like if they should place a Bible in a nightstand.
Gideons International got its start in , when two traveling businessmen, John H. Nicholson and Samuel E. Hill, arrived at the crowded Central Hotel in Boscobel, Wisconsin, for the night.
The two had never met, but there was only one double room left, so they decided to share it. The men got to talking and found they shared a common faith and had both toyed with the idea of creating an evangelical association for Christian businessmen.
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