{"id":26285,"date":"2016-12-13T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=26285"},"modified":"2016-12-12T21:12:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T02:12:49","slug":"hotels-without-gideon-bibles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2016\/12\/hotels-without-gideon-bibles\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotels without Gideon Bibles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"Bible_bom_hotel_rm\"<\/a>The Gideons do great work in distributing Bibles. \u00a0For many decades, virtually every hotel room had a Gideon Bible on the nightstand or in a drawer. \u00a0But today, less than half do.<\/p>\n

A survey has found that only 46% of American hotel rooms include religious material. \u00a0Ten years ago, nearly three-quarters did.<\/p>\n

Of course, what the Christian Gideons did, representatives of other religions did. \u00a0Hotels that have Bibles in the rooms often also have Books of Mormon. \u00a0I suspect that the decline of hotel Bibles has less to do with irreligion than with the abundance of religions and with hotel managers\u2019 fear of offending against the canons of religious diversity.<\/p>\n

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Donald Trump\u2019s hotel in Washington does have\u00a0Bibles. But they come with a printed note saying that \u201cif you want to continue your spiritual journey,\u201d the hotel staff will give you a copy of the Bhagavad Gita, Talmud, or Quran.<\/p>\n

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From Leslie Joseph,\u00a0Wi-Fi, not nightstand bibles, is the new religion at hotel rooms across the US \u2014 Quartz<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

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Religious materials, particularly bibles, have been a nightstand staple at American hotels for decades. Yet innkeepers are now ditching holy books for more modern amenities.<\/p>\n

A survey conducted by the American Hotel and Lodging Association and hotel research firm STR found that just 46% of American hotel rooms included religious material in rooms, less than half of what it was a decade ago.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

[Keep reading. . .]\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Photo by Seth Sawyers (Depth of information) [CC BY 2.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Gideons do great work in distributing Bibles. \u00a0For many decades, virtually every hotel room had a Gideon Bible on the nightstand or in a drawer. \u00a0But today, less than half do. A survey has found that only 46% of American hotel rooms include religious material. \u00a0Ten years ago, nearly three-quarters did. 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