Posted on 05/19/2016 11:11:42 AM PDT by fishtank
Atheists bash hotel Bibles: They’d prefer a Darwinian replacement!
by Paul Price
A recent article from The Christian Institute reported that the US-based ‘Freedom From Religion Foundation’ is now asking for ‘Bible-free’ bedrooms to be offered in hotels.1 For all of us who have been following the cultural trends in the West, this development should hardly come as a surprise—the anti-God agenda has been making further and further encroachments into traditionally Christian strongholds, as more and more of the culture has become saturated with secularism.
The atheist group cited the actions of the Travelodge hotel chain, who removed all Bibles from their rooms in 2014, despite the fact that not a single guest had registered a complaint! Of course, hotels are free to include or refuse to allow Bibles in their own rooms, but the widespread practice of placing Bibles in hotel room drawers has been carried on for over a century; clearly, this is just one more indicator that the essentially Christian makeup of Western culture has been seriously eroding.
The Bible is a trustworthy eyewitness record of history, and good science confirms this time and time again. Even more telling, however, is what the atheist group wants to replace the Bible with: Darwin’s On the Origin of Species!
(Excerpt) Read more at creation.com ...
Now that is just an ignorant statement.
I would recommend “It’s a Wonderful Life” by Stephen J Gould as the book to be placed in the hotel drawers. For most it will put them to sleep, but for those with a real mind it will serve as a primer on evolutionary science.
It escapes the tedious humdrum superficial creationist arguments and goes right to the subject of the Burgess Shale. The Cambrian evolution is always ignored because it doesn’t involve men and because it is in rocks and geological and thus impossible to refute
Re: “Freedom From Religion Foundation’ is now asking for ‘Bible-free’ bedrooms to be offered in hotels”
What are these guys so afraid of?
A Bible is like krytonite to them. The Word of God reveals the truth and they hate the truth because it shows them how stupid and ignorant they are. And that hurts their feeling.
They can always buy books they want with their own monies and donate them to the hotels. You know like the Christian groups do.
Bingo! A manifesto for all!
Haha, good one!
“I’m sick and tired of my fellow atheists acting like attention whores.”
Like in any other group, the attention whores are the ones that get noticed.
I expect the the number of atheists (or agnostics) is much larger than believed. How many atheists think that God doesn’t exist, but also think that a belief in God is a positive social trait? It would be logical for any such person to pretend to believe in God. It might also help them fit in with others who judge atheists as undesirable.
Christians were told for years to just turn the channel or don’t watch dirty movies or violence. We were to just shut up about the derangement.
Now the Atheists can do the same. If they don’t believe, a “book” in the room is nothing but a book they can choose not to read.
I strongly believe that “Atheists” who are offended by prayer or the Bible or anything Christian, are actually followers of the one below. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be offended.
The heck with them.
I travel. A lot. All around the USA. Most of the low budget hotels I stay in are run by Muslim Pakistani, Sikhs, or Hindu Indians. They ALL have Gideon bibles in the night stand. Who is offending who? Would I be offended if the Koran or a booke of Hindu vedas? NO!!! Would I read their books? Probably. Would I be offended? No. Would I read the books if I were offended? No.
But a liberal. They’ll only be happy when everyone is as miserable as they are.
Apparently these atheists have adopted a new religion, Proselytizing Atheism, somewhat similar to Islam, only in the opposite direction..................
Could be they're not really atheists...They just want to remove all evidence in the inevitable...
Wouldn't mind a copy of the Kama Sutra....................might even come in handy once in a while..............B^)
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so what sellebrities are giving to the Freedom from Religion foundation. what politicals give to their foundation. Out them.
In our state we had a instance where some unhappy looking ol fool was complaining about a class that made crosses in the school on one of those last days of school time killing things. Happened this week. I figure in this state about 10 yudts died from gang violence this week. So he did have something more important to whine about.
Genesis 1 For Atheists
1 In the beginning nothing created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the nothing was dark and void; it was really nothing. But then there was something hovering right in the middle of it. How about that!
3 And there was a really big bang, and then there was light. 4 The light was really, really bright. The big bang separated the light from the nothing. 5 The light was called “universe,” and the nothing was forgotten, because if anyone knew about the nothing, they’d never believe any of this. And there was evening, and there was morning—well, not yet.
6 And a planet formed at just the right distance from an average star. And the planet was good—very good. It was a rare planet where something interesting might happen. 7 And an expanse of water formed on the planet. And if you have water, you might as well just admit that you have life. Ever hear of Mars? 8 The water was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—but if no one was there to see the sunrise, did it really happen?
9 And the elements were gathered to once place, and they combined in new ways, randomly, inexplicably. 10 The elements begat biomolecules, which begat amino acids and phospholipids, which begat nucleotides and lipid bilayers, which begat RNA and mRNA, which begat ribosomes, which begat proteins, which begat fully-programmed cells with three meters of DNA folded neatly inside a microscopic nucleus with its own mitochondrial power supply. Things like this just seem to happen.
11 And the life-bearing cells produced cyanobacteria and vegetation. At least, once the asteroid bombardment abated. 12 The cells used mutation to produce various kinds of species. And all the mutations were good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—yada, yada, yada.
14 And there was that time when a really huge asteroid slammed into the planet. 15 After things settled down, there were two lights in the expanse of the sky. 16 The greater light governed the day 17 and the lesser light governed the night. 18 It sure was pretty. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—finally.
20 And even with the bacteria modifying the atmosphere from one type of toxicity to another, new life still formed. 21 Individual cells teamed together and figured out how to create complex organs with full nutrition, oxygenation, and waste removal systems connecting them all. 22 These new creatures were blessed, for it all just seemed to happen so quickly. They were fruitful and increased in number, filling the seas and the air. 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—give or take a billion.
24 And the mutations just kept getting better. The creatures became more complex, which was really amazing, what with smaller population sizes and longer gestation periods and one type of mutated creature preying on another. But somehow they still produced more kinds. 25 Oh my, there were lions and tigers and bears. And monkeys, too. We can’t forget the monkeys. They weren’t really that good, but they’re important to the story later on.
26 Then one creature appeared that could rule them all. This creature ruled over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that moved along the ground.
27 Male and female, they had an image that was unique: thoughts and language and art and multi-year courtship rituals and stupid religions and opposable thumbs and tools and creativity and guilt and consciousness and a lot of fun when trying to have kids and self-reflection and emotions: they got it all, even though their DNA only differed by two percent from other creatures.
28 They were blessed and ruled over everything. But when they mutated, none of the mutations were good.
29 And they ate a lot, too. 30 Not just the plants, but the animals, too. None of plants or animals seemed to be mutating much, either. Adaptation? Sure. Speciation? Not really.
31 And it was all very good, until the image-creatures started trying to explain it. And there was evening, and there was morning—but with no purpose and no reason to exist, you might as well sleep in.
While I’m not at all anti-bible in hotel rooms....
I’d much rather that some foundation be formed to put a copy of Atlas Shrugged in every hotel room.
OK, there are Bibles in the room, but are they doing any harm?
They are in Night Stand Drawer, Desk Drawer, or Dresser Drawer. They must be talking to the atheists about Christ.
When I think it in that way I end up LOL
Secondarily, the presence of Bibles in hotel rooms is because they comfort many who rent the rooms. The Bibles are not paid for by the hotel proprietors or the occupants. Gideon Bibles are paid for from the pockets of church members across the country for this purpose for compassionate and passively evangelical purposes.
The "Freedom from Religion" asses merely want to inflict their ideation on others who feel differently. They need to mind their business and simply not read the Bibles, local advertising brochures, nor watch TV, and merely disregard free literature that they don't choose to examine. Their objective is to deny other occupants from having the same privilege of freedom of choice.
****I sense a Madalyn Murray O’Hair ending...***
She considered herself to be the top of the line. I wonder, when her atheist “friends” came for her and her family with their strangling cords, chainsaws and sledge hammers, did she say...
“OH MY GOD!” or “OH MY ME!”
I don’t see how anybody has any legal right (secular) to ban hotels from putting whatever book they want in rooms as long as it isn’t porn. Bible, Darwin, whatever else. I bet the Darwin will gather dust and the Bible won’t!
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