Navy force to remove bibles from Navy run hotels. Faux Noose is upset.

[Lint Head]

The News Boob says, "Atheists hate Christianity.....Would atheists sue the government if it was the Koran?"

http://www.charter.net/tv/3/player/vendor/Fox%20News/player/embedded/asset/fox_news-navy_pulling_bibles_from_hotels_on_bases-foxnews

No. You lower IQ than a rock subsurface worm idiots. (Sorry about that worms.) We don't live in a theocracy. That's a four syllable word meaning 'government run by one religion'. But I understand. Four syllable words are hard for worms. Iran is a theocracy. Get it?

[Historic NY]

1. They'd be better off with condoms and sexual harassment warnings...

[yortsed snacilbuper]

2. If I ever find a bible in a hotel room,

I'm going to throw it in the shit can!

[Boom Sound 416]

6. Really, you'd throw it away?

[yortsed snacilbuper]

7. Probably not!

[BrotherIvan]

32. This was the funniest exchange I've read all day.

[Brother Buzz]

14. Rocky Raccoon checked into his room only to find.....

Have you ever stayed in a hotel room that didn't have a Bible?

I've never met a Gideon, but I will volunteer they are extremely persistent people.

[RKP5637]

26. I see them all the time, I just stick them in the bottom drawer upside down often sticking the

useless phone directory (if one) on top of them.

[lpbk2713]

3. Does this mean DoD is getting closer to pulling OxyRush off Armed Forces Radio?

Damn I hope so.

[shenmue]

4. Since when is the Navy a church?

Is it their job to convert people?

[Brigid]

18. I have more than one bible in my home.

That does not make my home a church.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

5. They ought to get rid of the chaplains too!

[Brigid]

16. Get rid of military chaplains?

All I can say is, good luck with that. Google Katcoff v. Marsh (1985) for further details.

[agentS]

8. 21st century, people!

If Christians can't travel without their 'bible' then they can put the Bible in book or app form on their phone/tablet/whatever.
Problem solved.

Fox News can go back to shouting about BergGanzi or whatever they mad at this week.

[freshwest]

9. 'Iran is a theocracy. Get it?' Yes, but do they allow Bibles in military run hotels there?

On second thought, does Iran have any military run hotels at all?

I don't dare ask why we do...

This should be a matter for the enlisted people to choose, they can have Bibles or whatever they want as reading material, I'm guessing.

O'Really will weigh in any minute now. And say something perfectly awful, guaranteed.

BTW, I can't get that link to work at all. May just be my computer. So sorry if the link showed Brillo going batshit as I didn't see it.

[cui bono]

10. If they want a bible they can bring their own. No one is stopping that.

But govt money should not be spent putting one in every room. Separation of church and state.

[hughee99]

35. If these are Gideon Bibles, the governement doesn't pay for them.

The organization provides them to the hotel for free.

[cui bono]

37. Okay, but then it's still a separation of church and state issue.

This whole bible in a hotel/motel room wackadoodle idea should go away anyway, even in private life. We are not a christian nation.

[hughee99]

38. From your post, I was under the impression that paying for the bibles

was your separation of church and state issue. Perhaps I misread it.

[cui bono]

40. I thought they had to pay, so that's why it sounded like that.

Either way it is separation of church and state.

[Brigid]

11. I may be wrong here . . .

But my guess is these are Gideon bibles, placed there by an organization that has been placing Bibles in hospital and hotel rooms for over a century called Gideons International. Usually they are in desk drawers. If I am right, that means the Gideons, not the Navy, paid for them. Don't read if you don't want to. I don't see what the big deal is.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

12. "I don't see what the big deal is."

It's on Government property!

[Brigid]

21. Psst . . . I have a little secret for you:

There are bibles and other religious texts, plus other religious articles on military bases and other government property.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

23. And it will be removed!

[Brigid]

24. Personal property.

Not paid for by the government, though paid for by people with their government paychecks.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

31. All the ships and bases I've been on an E-7 decided what you could or couldn't have.

who you gonna complain too!

[LuvNewcastle]

13. Yes, it's probably the Gideons.

They've put out millions of Bibles in hotel rooms around the world. They used to go to schools and distribute them there as well. I doubt that they're allowed to go to the public schools anymore, though. I've also seen Books of Mormon in hotel rooms. A different organization besides the Gideons does that, however.

The question I have is, would they allow a Muslim organization to distribute Korans in their rooms? I doubt most of the hotel chains would. The Navy probably would have before they changed their policy on Bibles.

I see these "holy" books as tools for proselytizing. I think it's absurd that they have Bibles and Books of Mormon and all these other religious books, but they don't have Mother Goose to read to the kids. What about great works of literature? Why don't they have any Hemingway or Faulkner or Shakespeare? They don't have those books because they aren't conversion tools.

[GoCubsGo]

15. Atheists might not sue if it was the Koran, but...

...their (Fox"News&quot viewers sure as hell would. And, no doubt they'd raise a massive stink over it.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

17. I was issued a bible in boot camp,

do they still do that or do you have to wait till you stay at the Navy Lodge to read it?

[Brigid]

19. You were issued a bible in boot camp?

I went through back in 1980, and was not issued one.

[MohRokTah]

20. The Gideons gave them out to whomever wanted one when I was in BCT in '81.

I didn't want one.

Instead of attending church, I got to cut grass on Sundays.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

22. Cape May 1961,

In those days you had to pretend you were religious or you would be punished!

[LuvNewcastle]

27. They wanted to make sure God was

on your side before they sent you off to kill people.

[Blue Idaho]

25. How about replacing them with

A copy of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights? That way they could study up on exactly what they are defending beside some vague fucked up bullshit notion of "Liberty" and "Freedoms."

[Lint Head]

28. 10,000+

[LuvNewcastle]

29. Great idea!

[mwrguy]

30. That's the last thing the brass wants them reading

[Blue Idaho]

33. All the more reason ;-) nt.

[Orrex]

34. You don't want seamen all over your bible, that's for sure.

[Lint Head]

36. lololol

[alp227]

39. First World Problems. LOL. nt