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OmahaBlueDog

(10,000 posts) Wed Jul 25, 2012, 02:36 PM Jul 2012

CNN (Via KETV Omaha) Hotel replaces Bibles with '50 Shades'

A hotel owner in Britain swaps Bibles for the racy novel "Fifty Shades of Grey." And the local priest isn't too happy.

The change was made earlier this month in all 40 guest rooms at the Damson Dene Hotel in the Lake District of England, USA Today reported.

"I haven&'t read the book yet -- I'm not in the target audience -- but I'm told it's a ripping good yarn and everyone who's in the target audience loves it," hotel owner Jonathan Denby wrote in a blog post. "This made me wonder about the sense of providing a book, the Gideon Bible, which no one reads and many dislike, in the bedside cabinet of our hotel bedrooms, instead of a book which everyone wants to read, such as 'Fifty Shades of Grey.'"

Denby denied making the change for any religious or philosophical reasons.

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CNN (Via KETV Omaha) Hotel replaces Bibles with '50 Shades' (Original Post) OmahaBlueDog Jul 2012 OP

Please. You can put Bible app on your phone if you want it. aquart Jul 2012 #1

That is hilarious. Curtland1015 Jul 2012 #2

I love it! Spazito Jul 2012 #3

I like to, um, "enhance" the Bibles I come across in hotel rooms. Arugula Latte Jul 2012 #6

LOL, I never thought of that! Spazito Jul 2012 #7

That book's becoming more popular than Mein Kampf n/t malthaussen Jul 2012 #4

Haha! Love it. Arugula Latte Jul 2012 #5

Surprising that there's not more righteous indignation in the comments section on that article rbixby Jul 2012 #8

"Ripping good yarn?" Isn't it basically Twilight fanfic? (nt) Posteritatis Jul 2012 #9

aquart

(69,014 posts)

1. Please. You can put Bible app on your phone if you want it.

Reply to OmahaBlueDog (Original post)

Wed Jul 25, 2012, 02:40 PM

Jul 2012

But that book costs money and the library waiting list is over 70 people long.

Curtland1015

(4,404 posts)

2. That is hilarious.

Reply to OmahaBlueDog (Original post)

Wed Jul 25, 2012, 02:42 PM

Jul 2012

Spazito

(50,484 posts)

3. I love it!

Reply to OmahaBlueDog (Original post)

Wed Jul 25, 2012, 02:46 PM

Jul 2012

It is totally ridiculous, imo, to put bibles in hotel rooms. Those who are so attached to the bible usually 'never leave home without it' not to mention there is more than one version of the bible.

Edited to correct grammar, changed 'are' to 'is'.