Dr Alex McFarland is a travelling preacher who stays in well over 100 hotels every year and he's noticed something...
Fox News and others have reported that according to the study from the hospitality analytics group STR, the percentage of hotels that offer religious materials in rooms has dropped by almost half in the last decade—from 95 percent in 2006 to just 48 percent this year."What a sad reality," McFarland said, "especially when our world so desperately needs hope. And where better to find hope than in the Word of God? Which does more harm—potentially offending someone who rented a hotel room, or depriving another person of an avenue to truth that could rescue that individual from a very dark place and help save a life? I’ve heard personal accounts of people who were about to take their own lives only to find a Bible in a hotel room drawer and take it as a sign to keep on living.
I have a feeling that last sentence is complete and utter bullshit. I doubt McFarland has ever heard a "personal anecdote" from a potential suicide who was saved when he saw a bible in a hotel room.
As for his complaint about the lack of bibles in hotel rooms, if McFarland had only bothered to consult his own copy of the holy scriptures, he would know that the hotel owners are actually doing god's work when they refuse to make bibles available to their guests. 2 Corinthians 4:3-4 clearly states that if the bible is hidden then it is being hidden for a good reason - to ensure that unbelievers never get a chance to redeem themselves:
But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. 2 Corinthians 4:3-4 (KJV)
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