U.S. Navy confiscates all Bibles from Hotels on Bases

[The_Lillard_King]

Step right up! Place your bets! Which previously banned/suspended user has dusted off an old account to come back and troll us?

IS MFD also Newssource?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Step right up! Place your bets! Which previously banned/suspended user has dusted off an old account to come back and troll us?

OdenRoyLMA2 changed his name today. This is not a PapaG account if that is what you were getting at.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

IS MFD also Newssource?

No.

 

[jlprk]

BTW, the last I checked they were called "barracks", not "hotels."

I told him in the 4th post, but he continues to call them hotels.

Years ago I attended the Base Chapel. As you walked out, you saw a couple of vertical display racks full of colorful free religious brochures and paperbacks.

But I don't seem to remember any pro-atheist literature in the chapel. Which they'd have to do, if they required free Bibles in every barracks quarter, anti-evolution taught in the base school, etc.

By the way, bases have barracks, Visiting Officers Quarters, etc...not hotels. Trying not to laugh.

 

[PDXFonz]

Hey, do you remember The Pledge of Allegiance?

Kids 18 and younger likely don't know it!

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Absolutely nothing wrong with this.

Bible thumpers can bring their own bibles if they feel the need to re-read scriptures.

 

[Further]

While I agree that it is most likely the constitutional thing to do, to remove bibles from hotel rooms on our governments military bases, I just wish it was not pushed forward my athiest groups. Now if the soldiers were given bibles to put in their footlocker, I'd have a bigger problem. But as it stands, it's just not an important enough action to widen the gap between the religious and non-religious. It just seems like it's so far on the periphery of what matters, why do anything this irrelevant that is going bother the friends and family of so many of the people who serve our nation.

Now don't get me wrong, I think removing the Bibles is the constitutional thing to do. But it just seems petty.

 

[maxiep]

It seems to me that it's an activist position to remove the bibles. Leaving them there would have really been the best thing to do. If someone wants to deposit a Koran, The Book of Mormon or even The God Delusion in these rooms, I would have zero problem with it.

 

[jlprk]

How about if groups want to put Mein Kamph on every barracks bed? There are plenty who want to, and have money.

 

[MARIS61]

Hey, do you remember The Pledge of Allegiance?

Do you remember Flag Day June 14, 1954, when the words "under God" were added, pretty much destroying the whole point of a Pledge of Allegiance.

 

[crandc]

Three pages and no one bothered to http://www.factcheck.org/2009/05/burned-bibles/ fact check?

The order came under the Bush Administration....

 

[DaLincolnJones]

Three pages and no one bothered to http://www.factcheck.org/2009/05/burned-bibles/ fact check?

The order came under the Bush Administration....

What?

Oh, the irony..hahahaahaaahaahaa

yeah..I have posted foolish shit as well, but this is a classic

 

[RR7]

Three pages and no one bothered to http://www.factcheck.org/2009/05/burned-bibles/ fact check?

The order came under the Bush Administration....

That's something different.

 

[Eastoff]

Hey, do you remember The Pledge of Allegiance?

Yeah, some socialist wrote it in 1892, and then it was made official in 1945 after the war ended. Why do the Christians want to put religion into our government?

 

[DaLincolnJones]

That's something different.

Oh, dear God.....dont say "different"...

 

[Denny Crane]

How is removing a bible FORCING godlessness on anyone?

This.

Anyone can bring their own Bible.

Where's the beef?