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Do you support or object to Bibles in hotel rooms?

I support it
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I object
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I have no opinion
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I support it but there should be other religious books too.
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Postby Country of CityTowne » Sun Jun 16, 2019 3:59 pm

As much as I love to bash religion, the atheists claiming that "putting a Bible in a hotel room is violating the freedom of religion" are stupid.

Putting a Bible in a hotel room is neglectable at best and slightly discriminatory at worst but you know, it ain't like they're forcing you to read it, shoving down your throat while reciting passages and badly singing shoddy off-tune Christian songs or any of that shit. If you don't want to read it you don't have to read it. If I went to a hotel and found one, I'd choose to read it for some laughs but I'd sure as hell not be forced to read it.


Thing is, if there's a religious doctrine of any kind in a room there should be ones of other religions just as much. Because, as it is a choice to read one there should be a choice to read others. An "all or nothing" thing, if you will. Don't forget science books as to get people actually using their brains.


But you know, that's just my bullshit opinions. Feel free to have your own and all.
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Postby Aclion » Sun Jun 16, 2019 4:16 pm

Country of CityTowne wrote:As much as I love to bash religion, the atheists claiming that "putting a Bible in a hotel room is violating the freedom of religion" are stupid.

Putting a Bible in a hotel room is neglectable at best and slightly discriminatory at worst but you know, it ain't like they're forcing you to read it, shoving down your throat while reciting passages and badly singing shoddy off-tune Christian songs or any of that shit. If you don't want to read it you don't have to read it. If I went to a hotel and found one, I'd choose to read it for some laughs but I'd sure as hell not be forced to read it.


Thing is, if there's a religious doctrine of any kind in a room there should be ones of other religions just as much. Because, as it is a choice to read one there should be a choice to read others. An "all or nothing" thing, if you will. Don't forget science books as to get people actually using their brains.


But you know, that's just my bullshit opinions. Feel free to have your own and all.

It's not even discriminatory, they're putting them there because a christian org has set up a system to distribute them. There's nothing stopping any other group from doing the same.
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Postby San Lumen » Sun Jun 16, 2019 4:22 pm

Anyone who is offended by a Bible or Torah or Quran in a hotel room dont read it. Simple as that.

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Postby Cekoviu » Sun Jun 16, 2019 5:29 pm

San Lumen wrote:Anyone who is offended by a Bible or Torah or Quran in a hotel room dont read it. Simple as that.

Since you've reposted this, I'm going to repost my response to the original.
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San Lumen wrote:Don’t read it simple as that

[a worldwide organization is providing free copies of Mein Kampf to hotels, which they're then providing for reading inside nightstand drawers]
"don't read it simple as that"
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Postby San Lumen » Sun Jun 16, 2019 5:39 pm

Cekoviu wrote:
San Lumen wrote:Anyone who is offended by a Bible or Torah or Quran in a hotel room dont read it. Simple as that.

Since you've reposted this, I'm going to repost my response to the original.
Cekoviu wrote:[a worldwide organization is providing free copies of Mein Kampf to hotels, which they're then providing for reading inside nightstand drawers]
"don't read it simple as that"

And what organization does that? Plus in some countries that would be illegal

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Postby Kannap » Sun Jun 16, 2019 5:44 pm

San Lumen wrote:
Cekoviu wrote:Since you've reposted this, I'm going to repost my response to the original.

And what organization does that? Plus in some countries that would be illegal


Sounds like some countries got offended and did a little more than "don't read it"
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Postby San Lumen » Sun Jun 16, 2019 5:52 pm

Kannap wrote:
San Lumen wrote:And what organization does that? Plus in some countries that would be illegal


Sounds like some countries got offended and did a little more than "don't read it"


I was referring to Mein Kampf not the Bible.

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Postby Cekoviu » Sun Jun 16, 2019 5:53 pm

San Lumen wrote:
Cekoviu wrote:Since you've reposted this, I'm going to repost my response to the original.

And what organization does that? Plus in some countries that would be illegal

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hypothetical
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Postby Cekoviu » Sun Jun 16, 2019 5:54 pm

San Lumen wrote:
Kannap wrote:
Sounds like some countries got offended and did a little more than "don't read it"


I was referring to Mein Kampf not the Bible.

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Postby Geneviev » Sun Jun 16, 2019 6:04 pm

Cekoviu wrote:
San Lumen wrote:Anyone who is offended by a Bible or Torah or Quran in a hotel room dont read it. Simple as that.

Since you've reposted this, I'm going to repost my response to the original.
Cekoviu wrote:[a worldwide organization is providing free copies of Mein Kampf to hotels, which they're then providing for reading inside nightstand drawers]
"don't read it simple as that"

There's a huge difference between Mein Kampf and a religious book.
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Postby Kernen » Sun Jun 16, 2019 6:06 pm

Geneviev wrote:
Cekoviu wrote:Since you've reposted this, I'm going to repost my response to the original.

There's a huge difference between Mein Kampf and a religious book.

I dunno, they both seem equally hateful to me.
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Postby Kannap » Sun Jun 16, 2019 6:06 pm

San Lumen wrote:
Kannap wrote:
Sounds like some countries got offended and did a little more than "don't read it"


I was referring to Mein Kampf not the Bible.


I feel like you're missing the point.
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Postby Kernen » Sun Jun 16, 2019 6:07 pm

San Lumen wrote:
Kannap wrote:
Sounds like some countries got offended and did a little more than "don't read it"


I was referring to Mein Kampf not the Bible.

Its a hypothetical. You can't argue that it isn't a real thing if its a hypothetical. It is, by definition, not real.
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Postby Geneviev » Sun Jun 16, 2019 6:08 pm

Kernen wrote:
Geneviev wrote:There's a huge difference between Mein Kampf and a religious book.

I dunno, they both seem equally hateful to me.

Mein Kampf is definitely hateful, but no religion is like that.
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Postby Ethel mermania » Sun Jun 16, 2019 6:08 pm

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Cekoviu wrote:What's the point of privacy if Jesus knows what you're doing all the time? :thinking:

So the Son as well as the Father like to watch?

Much like ceiling cat, if you think about it.... especially after a couple of drinks.
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Postby Kannap » Sun Jun 16, 2019 6:09 pm

Geneviev wrote:
Cekoviu wrote:Since you've reposted this, I'm going to repost my response to the original.

There's a huge difference between Mein Kampf and a religious book.


They're both books and can both be physically placed in a bedside drawer. That's as similar as they need to be for this scenario.
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Postby Kernen » Sun Jun 16, 2019 6:09 pm

Geneviev wrote:
Kernen wrote:I dunno, they both seem equally hateful to me.

Mein Kampf is definitely hateful, but no religion is like that.

I see you've lived a blessed life not being on Christianity's hit list.
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Postby Cekoviu » Sun Jun 16, 2019 6:09 pm

Geneviev wrote:
Cekoviu wrote:Since you've reposted this, I'm going to repost my response to the original.

There's a huge difference between Mein Kampf and a religious book.

Have you read the Bible? Particularly the OT?
And don't give me the Council of Jerusalem shit, because like the Nuremberg trials, they didn't actually change the content of the book.
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Postby Kannap » Sun Jun 16, 2019 6:10 pm

Geneviev wrote:
Kernen wrote:I dunno, they both seem equally hateful to me.

Mein Kampf is definitely hateful, but no religion is like that.


I dunno, I've met a lot of violent, aggressive, and hateful Christians.
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Postby Ethel mermania » Sun Jun 16, 2019 6:11 pm

Kernen wrote:
Geneviev wrote:There's a huge difference between Mein Kampf and a religious book.

I dunno, they both seem equally hateful to me.

Ooooo. Edgy...
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Postby Geneviev » Sun Jun 16, 2019 6:12 pm

Kernen wrote:
Geneviev wrote:Mein Kampf is definitely hateful, but no religion is like that.

I see you've lived a blessed life not being on Christianity's hit list.

That's not quite true, but okay.

Cekoviu wrote:
Geneviev wrote:There's a huge difference between Mein Kampf and a religious book.

Have you read the Bible? Particularly the OT?
And don't give me the Council of Jerusalem shit, because like the Nuremberg trials, they didn't actually change the content of the book.

I've read it, and the Bible doesn't encourage genocide. Even the Old Testament isn't that bad.
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Postby Neutraligon » Sun Jun 16, 2019 6:14 pm

Geneviev wrote:
Kernen wrote:I see you've lived a blessed life not being on Christianity's hit list.

That's not quite true, but okay.

Cekoviu wrote:Have you read the Bible? Particularly the OT?
And don't give me the Council of Jerusalem shit, because like the Nuremberg trials, they didn't actually change the content of the book.

I've read it, and the Bible doesn't encourage genocide. Even the Old Testament isn't that bad.

Uh... yes it did. What do you think was happening when god killed all the first born, or when he ordered the Israelites to kill an entire group, including all the children.
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Postby Kannap » Sun Jun 16, 2019 6:15 pm

Geneviev wrote:
Kernen wrote:I see you've lived a blessed life not being on Christianity's hit list.

That's not quite true, but okay.

Cekoviu wrote:Have you read the Bible? Particularly the OT?
And don't give me the Council of Jerusalem shit, because like the Nuremberg trials, they didn't actually change the content of the book.

I've read it, and the Bible doesn't encourage genocide. Even the Old Testament isn't that bad.


I dunno, I think Jericho and the other native peoples of Canaan would like to disagree. Like, God kinda just said, "See that land? It's yours, kill everybody who lives there and take it"
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Postby Kernen » Sun Jun 16, 2019 6:16 pm

Geneviev wrote:
Kernen wrote:I see you've lived a blessed life not being on Christianity's hit list.

That's not quite true, but okay.

Cekoviu wrote:Have you read the Bible? Particularly the OT?
And don't give me the Council of Jerusalem shit, because like the Nuremberg trials, they didn't actually change the content of the book.

I've read it, and the Bible doesn't encourage genocide. Even the Old Testament isn't that bad.



Then you've drunk their vile kool-aid.

Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. Psalm 137:9. Genocide.
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Postby Ethel mermania » Sun Jun 16, 2019 6:17 pm

Kernen wrote:
Geneviev wrote:That's not quite true, but okay.


I've read it, and the Bible doesn't encourage genocide. Even the Old Testament isn't that bad.



Then you've drunk their vile kool-aid.

Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. Psalm 137:9. Genocide.

Especially apt on fathers day.
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