"correcting" hotel bibles

susanbrown liatris@mail.utexas.edu
Wed, 8 Oct 1997 17:15:50 -0500 (CDT) (00876370550, l03010d00b06169705c50@[128.83.202.55]) 

SUSANBROWN

>>Must be all those secular humanists and atheists.  Shame on you Mark--put

>>those Gideon's back!  (Unless it says that you make take them--I've been

>>know to highlight some of the grosser passages with my trusty yellow

>>marker.)

>>

>MUNDINGER

>

>Did any of those Gideon bibles appear to have ever been opened?  I have

>traveled quite a bit on business and on only one occasion did I find

>one that I thought had been opened.  You can tell by the stiff spine

>and the way the pages stick together at the edges.  The exception was

>one that had been used as a coloring book by a child (or perhaps a

>fundamentalist <grin>).


SUSANBROWN

Nope, now that you've mentioned it, they almost always have sticky pages
and stiff spines, so I doubt that anyone would see my "defacement" which
consists of yellow highlighting.  (I don't have the original post about
defacing the bible.)

I guess highlighting John 3:16 in the bible isn't considered defacement.  I
have to assume that few people read those other parts because when was the
last time you saw "Judges 19:22-29" (text to follow) on a sign at a
football game?  That verse just popped into my mind--I'm sure their are
better examples.

At the University of Texas at Austin, the University Skeptical Association
has a hard time advertising their meetings because their flyers get torn
down as soon as they get posted.  Must be those evil secular humanists
again.

(NIV, I think:)
22 While they were enjoying themselves, some of the wicked men of the city
surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they shouted to the old man who
owned the house, "Bring out the man who came to your house so we can have
sex with him."
23 The owner of the house went outside and said to them, "No, my friends,
don't be so vile. Since this man is my guest, don't do this disgraceful
thing.
24 Look, here is my virgin daughter, and his concubine. I will bring them
out to you now, and you can use them and do to them whatever you wish. But
to this man, don't do such a disgraceful thing."
25 But the men would not listen to him. So the man took his concubine and
sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the
night, and at dawn they let her go.
26 At daybreak the woman went back to the house where her master was
staying, fell down at the door and lay there until daylight.
27 When her master got up in the morning and opened the door of the house
and stepped out to continue on his way, there lay his concubine, fallen in
the doorway of the house, with her hands on the threshold.
28 He said to her, "Get up; let's go." But there was no answer. Then the
man put her on his donkey and set out for home.
29 When he reached home, he took a knife and cut up his concubine, limb by
limb, into twelve parts and sent them into all the areas of Israel.


susanbrown