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More Hotels Are Checking Out of The Bible Business
LA Times ^ | December 4, 2016

Posted on 12/04/2016 9:48:51 AM PST by Steelfish

More Hotels Are Checking Out of The Bible Business Moxy Berlin Hotel opening party

The Moxy Berlin Hotel opened in October. Marriott International has recently decided that no religious materials should be offered at Moxy and Edition hotels, two of its newest millennial-oriented hotel brands.

When the ultra-hip Moxy Hotel opens in San Diego next year, the rooms will be stocked with the usual amenities — an alarm clock, hair dryer, writing desk and flat-screen TV.

But you won’t find a Bible in the bedside nightstand.

Marriott International, the world’s largest hotel company, supplies a Bible and the Book of Mormon in the rooms of every other hotel in the franchise. But the company has recently decided that no religious materials should be offered at two of its newest millennial-oriented hotel brands, Moxy and Edition hotels.

“It’s because the religious books don’t fit the personality of the brands,” said Marriott spokeswoman Felicia Farrar McLemore, explaining that the Moxy and Edition hotels are geared toward fun-loving millennials.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: bibles; hotels; marriott
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To: Cicero
I believe it was the Gideons who started this. I was involved in our local chapter for a while.

The one thing I think they needed to change was switching from the KJV to the NASB.

21 posted on 12/04/2016 10:56:33 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: Steelfish

There are an unusually high number of suicides in hotels. The Bible offers hope and many lonely people, traveling salesmen, separating or divorcing individuals, etc., spend inordinate periods of time alone in hotels.

See: lodgingmagazine.com/taking-steps-to-help-prevent-suicides-in-hotels/

There was an interesting study showing that locals check into hotels in Las Vegas, to “check out,” presumably not to mess up their own home.

A Bible in the night-stand might just be the one thing that helps a person get past a particularly difficult period in their lives.


22 posted on 12/04/2016 10:58:58 AM PST by Ex-Pat in Mex
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To: Steelfish

I hope they go bankrupt.


23 posted on 12/04/2016 10:59:42 AM PST by SoFloFreeper (Isaiah 25:8)
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To: Steelfish

Korans and Mapplethorpe Photobooks.


24 posted on 12/04/2016 11:16:21 AM PST by Organic Panic (Gentrification in America. Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: NonValueAdded

...Gideon checked out and he left it no doubt, to help with good Rocky’s revival....

:-)


25 posted on 12/04/2016 11:20:33 AM PST by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: Sacajaweau

“Always wondered why they were there in the first place. Not knocking religion...but why??”

Because hotels were interested in pleasing their guests - many of whom, in days gone by, read the Bible frequently. Also, organizations like the Gideons supplied the Bibles for little or no cost. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideons_International


26 posted on 12/04/2016 11:30:13 AM PST by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: IronJack

Marxist writer Barbara Ehrenreich used to boast about her atheist father who stole the Gideon Bible from every room he stayed in and then proudly piled them up in stacks in his living room.

Yeah, tolerance.


27 posted on 12/04/2016 11:48:32 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Exactly, I will stock up on Bibles...


28 posted on 12/04/2016 12:14:08 PM PST by pajama pundit (NFL: it's OK to take a knee to disrespect the Flag, but "God forbid" you take a knee to honor God.)
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To: Sacajaweau

Sometimes the word of God can give reason. It takes an acceptance of a higher power.

The Gideons have spent countless time and money to introduce the Power of Jesus to all. The Bible and exactly the New Testament give those depressed a new hope in their existence.

Everyone I meet gets a good lesson on the gifts and expression of the Lord. We are not here by chance, we are here to see him.

Sometimes it is very powerful. The Bible provides a path to that understanding.


29 posted on 12/04/2016 12:24:09 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: Steelfish
I was pleased to find a Gideon Bible in my hotel room in a Leftist-occupied area of Seattle recently.

I don't want to say the name of the chain, lest the Leftists converge on it and demand removal of the Bibles; suffice it to say, the chain has a national ad campaign directed at hip, young people.

(I'm neither hip nor young, but this hotel offered the best deal, so I booked there.)

30 posted on 12/04/2016 12:29:36 PM PST by shhrubbery! (NIH!)
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To: shhrubbery!

his “service” will die out. My wife has the Bible on her phone and tablet. And she carries an annotated one in her bag. Too easy. Don’t need the hotel to furnish one.


31 posted on 12/04/2016 12:31:04 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: elcid1970

So she bragged about having a cowardly thief as a parent? I guess that’s not so unusual for a lib. After all, Chelsea Clinton said she was proud of her mother.


32 posted on 12/04/2016 12:31:14 PM PST by IronJack
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To: morphing libertarian

This service


33 posted on 12/04/2016 12:31:18 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: napscoordinator

Well, I would imagine most hotel guests are not Christians. That Bible may be the first one they ever saw. Besides if it is anything like the towels. . .I’m sure many Bibles go home with not only non Christians but Christians as well. Just sayin’. There are countries where people are losing their lives just having one page of the Bible in their possession. It is God’s Word and most don’t have a clue what is in it. If one person comes to the saving grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and does not go to hell by one Bible out of thousands, it is worth it all.


34 posted on 12/04/2016 12:34:28 PM PST by Maudeen (No one on this earth is too far gone for Jesus.)
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To: morphing libertarian
This “service” will die out. My wife has the Bible on her phone and tablet.

Your wife might have a trusted app on her phone and tablet; but others might want to be careful with that idea:
Forbes Magazine: Android Malware Hiding In Bible Apps

As for carrying a Bible ... with the baggage rules on airlines these days, many of us have to minimize.

Also I like the idea of the Gideon Bibles being there -- not so much for people like you and me, but for non-religious people who might be going through some tough or lonely moments in their hotel rooms, and have never thought of looking at a Bible before.

35 posted on 12/04/2016 12:42:35 PM PST by shhrubbery! (NIH!)
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To: shhrubbery!

There are safe ways to buy apps. One is to ask people who have already done so.

You are against the changing trends and technology. Ret assured the Gideons and others will still be ministering to prisons. Just don’t have a fit when you open the drawers at the hotel and no bible. Thing of the past.


36 posted on 12/04/2016 12:45:39 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: IronJack

“lineage of some Old Testament prophet and had nothing to do with what was going on in my life at the time”

Sure it does...the lineages tell us that we have only a short span to live righteously or unrighteously before God...then we die!


37 posted on 12/04/2016 12:45:44 PM PST by mdmathis6 (BEWARE THE ABORTION POLITICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX!)
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To: morphing libertarian
You are against the changing trends and technology. Ret assured the Gideons and others will still be ministering to prisons. Just don’t have a fit when you open the drawers at the hotel and no bible. Thing of the past.

Ha, you're hilariously wrong about me. I have nothing against technology, use it all the time. Do you have a problem with my warning FReepers about potential malware?

And to borrow your phrase ... you may "rest assured" that I won't "have a fit" if I don't find a Bible in the drawer, next time I stay in a hotel. I was simply surprised and pleased to find one in a hip hotel in a far Left city.

38 posted on 12/04/2016 12:53:02 PM PST by shhrubbery! (NIH!)
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To: shhrubbery!

I just wanted to point out that there are safer ways to buy applications.

Best wishes.


39 posted on 12/04/2016 12:54:24 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: Steelfish

And then there’s this.

What a contrast!

Bible Distributions Helping Equip Cuba’s Christians - (Photos)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3501355/posts


40 posted on 12/04/2016 1:18:32 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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