Atheists Get Navy to Remove Donated Bibles from Lodges and Hotels

By Elizabeth Nelson

From a Biblical perspective I understand why Christians are going to be hated and persecuted, even in America, but from a worldly perspective I don't understand the Atheist's profound hostility towards the Christian's undying faith, to the point where we aren't just the target of their disdain but we've become their punching bag.  

From teaming up with the IRS to forcing the Navy to remove all of the donated Bibles from their Hotels and lodges, something that has been comforting travelers, soldiers and their families for decades.

I don't get it, I'm not offended Atheists don't believe in God. So, why are Atheists offended that I believe in God? pic.twitter.com/qCwUwyvqkN
— Elizabeth Nelson (@ElizabethNels0n) August 7, 2014

Military chaplains are calling for donated Bibles to be allowed in Navy lodges after an atheist group successfully lobbied to have them removed.

The atheist nonprofit Freedom from Religion Foundation sent a letter to the Navy complaining about the Bibles back in March. The Bibles had been donated by various Christian charities, including the famous Gideons International, who have distributed nearly 2 million Bibles to hotels, motels, hospitals, schools and prisons since its founding in 1908. This shocking discovery was brought to their attention by two FFRF member servicemen who noted that “nearly every Navy lodging room” they’d stayed in over the course of their careers contained a Bible.

“Providing bibles to guests in Navy-run hotels amounts to a government endorsement of that religious text,” the letter explains. “Including bibles sends the message to non-Christian and non-religious guests that they should read the bible… Such a practice alienates non-Christian guests whose religious beliefs are inconsistent with the message being promoted by the bibles, including the 20% of the U.S. population that is nonreligious.”

The Navy responded a few months later, ordering the Navy Lodge General Manager to “remove religious material currently in the guest rooms.”

“By removing bibles from Navy-run lodges, the Navy has taken a step to ensure that it is not sending the impermissible message that Christians are favored over guests with other religious beliefs or over those guests with no religion,” said FFRF Staff Attorney Sam Grover at the time.

Now a chaplain advocacy group is speaking out.

“A Bible in a hotel room is no more illegal than a chaplain in the military,” said former chaplain Col. Ron Crews, currently Executive Director of the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty. “There is nothing wrong with allowing the Gideons to place Bibles in Navy lodges, which it has done for decades at no cost to the Navy. Our service men and women are often away from home, sometimes for long periods of time. It’s perfectly constitutional and legal to allow the Gideons to provide, at their own expense, this source of comfort for service men and women of faith.”  Read more Dailycaller: 

The Gideons, for decades, have placed a Bible in the bedside drawer stand of the Navy lodges

and hotels and thousands of other hotels around the USA and throughout the world.  These Bibles don't "force" the temporary resident, whatever their religion may be, to open the drawer and read the Word within it, or even to accept it if they should.  If they open the drawer, see the Bible and wish not to open the Cover, it's their Right to close the drawer, never to look upon the Bible again.  So, why is this UnGodly group being so narrow-minded and intolerant.  Oh, I know - liberals are supposed to be the "most tolerant and open-minded," yet we see here they are far from it and far from gracious and loving.