So you’re traveling, and in your motel room you discover a hard-cover Bible, deposited there by the obnoxious “Gideons”. Presumably the Gideons don’t go room to room putting Bibles in drawers. I reckon they go to the motel manager and make him an offer he can’t refuse.
Anyway, what should a weary traveler do with that darned thing? You can’t just leave it there like a ticking bomb waiting to blow away innocent people’s rational minds. A couple times I did this: tear the covers off and throw it in the trash. But then I thought: Some poor cleaner is going to see this and have a heart attack.
Now I just put it in my suitcase. When I get home, it goes in the recycling bin. I’m all about saving the planet, you know.
Thought police are thought police – regarless their carbon footprint.
Misleading. My post had nothing to do with burning books.
“Das war ein Vorspiel nur, dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.” Heinrich Heine, 1820 – On a memorial to the Nazi book burning of 1933.
(“That was but a prelude; where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people also.”)
God’s revelation in scripture is to enable those who receive it to live a purposeful, God honouring life in His service. This is not taught by man but indeed a revelation from Jesus Christ who I serve. Dangerous it is to those who abuse or ignore it but to those who embrace it, it is life eternal.
O.M.Ward
15.11.11
You should show more respect for the institution that made your life possible. Your ancestors who chose no religion went extinct many millennia ago, only those who chose religion were able to survive.