Books can be really soft though...

Mormon missionaries knock on doors almost EVERY day.  But, since you are generally home on holidays, that is when they get you at home.  It is completely random.

Yes, this is old, but....

Feb 23, 2009 -- 7:37AM, gillyflower wrote:

I think it is a bad idea, too. I think that it is just fine to have different faith materials at the front desk that one can give to a customer if there is a request but putting it in the room is proselytizing. Unless you want to put faith materials from every religion in each room, well, you are making it pretty clear who is welcome in your motel and who you'd like to covert.

If I stay in a hotel with a Gideon Bible in the room (and there pretty much always are), I just ignore it, unless I get a sudden urge to look something up.  I really don't care one way or another.

I used to work at an independent hotel, and I noticed whenever I went into the rooms (I was a housekeeper), if people seemed to be reading the Bible at all--had it out--they'd brought their own.  Everyone else just left it in a drawer.  We did put Gideon Bibles in the rooms; the Gideon Society (which is separate from any hotel) came around with them about once a year.  The hotel itself did not have any religious bent; management certainly did not.  That's just one of those things that's in a hotel room, take it or leave it.

Sep 26, 2009 -- 9:01PM, Katmandu2 wrote:

How would the Christians like it if we non-Christians acted as they do?  How would they like it if we demanded that our messages be allowed in schools and courthouses?  How would they like it if we went to their doors or workplaces and handed out pamphlets advertising our beliefs?  I'm just wondering.......

If you want to hear them scream, find a Muslim organization that would place a Qur’ān in every hotel room right next to the Gideon's Bible.

Sep 30, 2009 -- 10:17PM, Confusedman wrote:

That's just rude.

Are you saying placing the the Qur’ān, or for that matter the Tanakh or the Vedas, in hotel rooms would be rude? If so, why?

Is it not rude that the Southern Baptist Association puts out "prayer guides" meant to assist their members in praying for those of other religions to convert to Christianity?

Each of these guides is written about a specific religion. They are generally printed in advance of that religion's major seasonal holy day(s). For example, perhaps the most controversial "prayer guide was designed to help Southern Baptists to pray for the conversion of their Jewish friends and neighbors as the Jews observe Rosh Hashanah."

www.religioustolerance.org/sbc_pray.htm

IMO, this policy is not only rude, it is also extremely arrogant.