Hotel Replaces Bedside Bibles With '50 Shades Of Grey': Hilarious or Horrible?
mrosen814
2012/07/31 21:00:00
|
|
|||||
|
351 votes
|
|
55% | |||
|
291 votes
|
|
45% | |||
Bibles have been booted from The Damson Dene Hotel... and E L James’ BDSM erotica novel "Fifty Shades of Grey" has taken its place in every room within the English inn.
Upon request, the front desk of the hotel will provide bibles. TheFrisky goes on to write "...the replacement has caused much controversy, with people in the United States sending “quite a few e-mails quoting the scripture to [the hotel] and suggesting that it would be a good thing to put the Bible back.”
THEFRISKY.COM reports:
Upon request, the front desk of the hotel will provide bibles. TheFrisky goes on to write "...the replacement has caused much controversy, with people in the United States sending “quite a few e-mails quoting the scripture to [the hotel] and suggesting that it would be a good thing to put the Bible back.”
THEFRISKY.COM reports:
Christian Grey is damn near God-like — at least according to guests’ bedside tables in The Damson Dene Hotel.’
Read More: http://www.thefrisky.com/2012-07-25/hotel-replaces...
The point here is,
"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also." ~ Mark Twain
If you can't relate, you're not thinking rationally. That doesn't mean you can't believe, but it's arrogant to presume you have all the answers with such certainty.
I don't believe in moral relativism or lots of other postmodern staples either. That doesn't mean I have to make the Bible the starting point of all thought...let alone the only possible valid starting point.
On what basis have you determined the Bible to be truth?
You can have blind faith in anything, and your blind faith in the Bible (a very specific work) is just as unconvincing up front as blind faith in Invisible Flying Pink Unicorns or blind faith in The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. The a priori probabilities of any of them being absolute truths are roughly equal (and very low), and they remain so until you (or someone) can justify your faith on rational grounds. I have come across many people who have offered much more substantive arguments than yourself (not especially convincing, but at least respectable and delivered with a dose of humility)...but unless and until you are aware of those arguments and capable of formulating them on your own, you are nowhere near the point where you have any business claiming your beliefs as absolute truth beyond any doubt.
Start with asking yourself, WHY do you believe in the Bible? You were not born believing in it; first you had to learn to use your fallible senses and develop the ability for logic and reason, followed by the ability to read. What led you to the Bible in the first place? What made you decide that this specific book is truly the word of God, rather...
You can have blind faith in anything, and your blind faith in the Bible (a very specific work) is just as unconvincing up front as blind faith in Invisible Flying Pink Unicorns or blind faith in The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. The a priori probabilities of any of them being absolute truths are roughly equal (and very low), and they remain so until you (or someone) can justify your faith on rational grounds. I have come across many people who have offered much more substantive arguments than yourself (not especially convincing, but at least respectable and delivered with a dose of humility)...but unless and until you are aware of those arguments and capable of formulating them on your own, you are nowhere near the point where you have any business claiming your beliefs as absolute truth beyond any doubt.
Start with asking yourself, WHY do you believe in the Bible? You were not born believing in it; first you had to learn to use your fallible senses and develop the ability for logic and reason, followed by the ability to read. What led you to the Bible in the first place? What made you decide that this specific book is truly the word of God, rather than other religious texts (or none at all)...indoctrination from an early age, or close and careful rational examination of all of them on an equal basis? I could go on, but...that's enough for now.
Still, if your attention span is so short that you have to reduce any conversation about the basis for your entire worldview into sound bites that can fit in a newspaper headline, then you might just be beyond hope.