In hotel rooms around the world, there's a handful of things your room will have when you check-in - shampoo, soap, a hairdryer and a copy of the Gideons Bible. If Rocky Raccoon were to check into his room today, there’s a lesser chance that he would find Gideon’s Bible. Gideon Bible in hotel room desk drawer. It is standard practice for hotels, civilian and military, to have a checklist for the exact contents of a room. What are these atheists so angry about this time? According to a press release from The Freedom From Religion Foundation, an atheist acti The virulently anti-Christian Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) is at it once again. It is common practice for hotels to include the ubiquitous Gideon Bible. “We don’t mind that at all,” said Murray. ... places the The Book of Mormon in many of its rooms, and many hotels also … Absolutely, you not only can take the Gideon Bible from your hotel room, the Gideons International organization actively encourages it, as Quora User answered. A Freedom From Religion Foundation letter of complaint resulted in removal of Gideon bibles from hotels from a third public university. The atheist group revealed at the end of October that Northern Illinois University agreed to remove the Bibles from the Holmes hotel following their complaint. Billy Hallowell, Deseret News An atheist organization that has asked private hotels and publicly funded university-owned hotels to remove Bibles from their guest rooms has reportedly convinced the Thunderbird Executive Inn in Glendale, Arizona, to do just that. BY Matt Soniak. Apparently, Gideon Bibles resting in hotel table drawers are just too much to bear for the self-proclaimed freethinkers, atheists, and agnostics at FFRF. The U.K.'s Travelodge Hotels has removed Bibles from all of its rooms. We make it really easy: All Bibles are provided free of charge and are replaced free of charge if damaged or removed. FFRF received word Sept. 3 from the general counsel at Pennsylvania State University that bibles have been removed from the Nittany Lion Inn and the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel in State College. Gideons Still Place Bibles In Superior Richard Clark is a Gideon who lives in Superior. “Hotel Bibles” are also called “Gideon Bibles” after Gideon International, a group of male missionaries and Christian businessmen who took it upon themselves to provide this work to hotels across the nation. Gideons Bibles were recently removed from an ASU-affiliated hotel after a complaint form the Freedom From Religion Foundation Complimentary Gideon Bibles have now been removed from a college hotel in Arizona after its officials received a complaint from a large atheist activist group. We make it really easy: All Bibles are provided free of charge and are replaced free of charge if damaged or removed. One of Britain’s biggest hotel chains has removed Bibles from its rooms to avoid upsetting non-Christians. (Javi Vázquez/Flickr/Creative Commons) The U.K. nationwide hotel chain Travelodge has removed Bibles from all of its rooms, in a move criticized by the Church of England. March 18, 2012. by Clinton Alexander Lodging managers pointed to their checklist for “accreditation” as the reason the Bibles were in the rooms. The Gideons began distributing free Bibles in 1908, when the first Bibles were placed in the rooms of a hotel in Montana. The Gideons International place thousands of Bibles annually in hotels across almost 200 countries, including countries where Christianity is not the main religion. Their presence certainly isn't illegal, but it does represent an unambiguous form of preferential treatment for Christianity. Gideon International spokesman Woody Murray said: > [Gideon Bibles] are spiritual staples of nearly every hotel room and the only item guests are invited to steal. Gideons Bible's stay at ASU-affiliated hotel officially over. What began in 1908 as an Association of Christian businessmen placing Bibles in hotel rooms has evolved into an expanding mission to provide Scriptures to all people in nearly every facet of life.