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Navy reverses Bible ban

Precedent-making, I hope.
 
I was wondering why the Navy would have banned bibles.


Turns out they didn't. "Ban" is not what happened here. The Navy merely stopped placing bibles in their lodgings.

Why did that become a thing, anyway? Why does every hotel in America have a bible in the drawer?
 
Chalk up one for the good guys...........God Bless the USA.

Navy reverses Bible ban | Fox News

Leave it to FOX News to take a story out of context, and tell a lie for political purposes. But that's FOX News, where you have to take their stories with a shaker of salt.

The Navy never banned Bibles. They only stopped putting them in the quarters of Navy personnel. Personnel were still allowed to have Bibles. So all that's happened is that the Navy is putting Bibles in their quarters again.

Sheesh!!
 
Leave it to FOX News to take a story out of context for political purposes. The Navy never banned Bibles. They only stopped putting them in the quarters of Navy personnel. Personnel were still allowed to have Bibles. So all that's happened is that the Navy is putting Bibles in their quarters again.

Sheesh!!

I wonder how NP would react to the Navy placing a Koran in all of its quarters.
 
I was wondering why the Navy would have banned bibles.


Turns out they didn't. "Ban" is not what happened here. The Navy merely stopped placing bibles in their lodgings.

Why did that become a thing, anyway? Why does every hotel in America have a bible in the drawer?

Because the Giddeons donate those Bibles.
 
I wonder how NP would react to the Navy placing a Koran in all of its quarters.



Around 70-80% of our military personnel profess Christianity.

I don't have the figures in front of me, but I'd guess less than 1% profess Islam.


Yes, it does make a difference.
 
He gives a **** either way? They can put dictionaries in all quarters, too. Doesn't mean anyone is obligated to read the ****.
 
Around 70-80% of our military personnel profess Christianity.

I don't have the figures in front of me, but I'd guess less than 1% profess Islam.


Yes, it does make a difference.

Why don't they carry their own, instead of relying on government handouts?
 
It's Gideon, and we know WHO does it. The question is why?



Why would a private charitable society dedicated to providing Bibles and tracts free to the public put Bibles in Navy lodgings?


Why indeed.... quite the mystery isn't it? :lamo
 
So what I'm getting out of this thread is that:

  1. The USN used to allow donated bibles to be placed in quarters.
  2. They stopped allowing the practice for one reason or another at some point recently.
  3. They have now started allowing it again.

Some hack reported the previous bit as a ban on bibles in the navy, which so far as I can tell was nowhere near the case.
 
Just to clarify, Navy Lodge is not barracks for sailors or any other form of quarters unless it is special circumstances. Navy Lodges are onbase hotels for military personnel and their families that are generally cheaper. The times they act as quarters is generally for temporary duty where there are some sort of special circumstances or it is a really shortterm assignment.
 
And for retired personnel and their families--still is at Great Lakes.
Spent many a fine evening with one or both parents at sick-call Navy lodging since 1974 up there.
Commissary priviledges are still there for Mom but we rarely go anymore .
Just to clarify, Navy Lodge is not barracks for sailors or any other form of quarters unless it is special circumstances. Navy Lodges are onbase hotels for military personnel and their families that are generally cheaper. The times they act as quarters is generally for temporary duty where there are some sort of special circumstances or it is a really shortterm assignment.
 
Although FOX is stupid I've noticed this "Freedom from Religion" group poppiing up everywhere now.

Who are these assholes? Religion was never inherently evil, only a few of its followers were (because every atheist is a saint...)
 
Because the Giddeons donate those Bibles.

Yeah, I know that's what happens.

I just wonder why that became a thing. Why hotel rooms? I mean, wouldn't a person who feels the need to regularly crack open a bible while on the road...have one already? There's a crapload of hotel rooms in this country! That's a lot of bibles!
 
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