Bibles in Hotel Rooms is Another Strange Example of Christian Privilege
Bibles in Hotel Rooms is Another Strange Example of Christian Privilege
Christian privilege is pervasive in the United States. What does it look like? Consider that we can count on finding a bible in every hotel room.
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Please don't call it privilege. They are/were the majority where this hotel seems to be located. I can assure you you won't find a christian bible in a hotel in the UAE but you will find something else...
...crude oil?
... slaves?
I didn't know how to react to that one... My first instinct was to call you bad names but then I thought "have some sense of humor, would ya?". Thanks!
The UAE is built on debt bondage and forced labor, so yes, modern slavery is as common as the Quran.
I know you mean the Quran but in Islamic countries I've mostly only seen a little sticker in the hotel bed drawer pointing in the direction you should pray.
Not just Islamic countries. Many US hotel chains have this too. Or if they are more discreet about it, it's a needle pointing north in every room.
Please don’t call it privilege. They are/were the majority where this hotel seems to be located
in other words: they have privilege where this hotel seems to be located, along with millions of others, but admitting being Christian is a privilege makes me uncomfortable (because I am, or was one, and still enjoy said privilege), so please don't say things as they are.
Whatever dude. I'm against the use of a victimising term in defence of atheism. We just don't need that. We fight religion with reason and the scientific method, we don't need to victimise anyone in the process. Also, my point was not that things must remain as they are. Is that some things are habits, are customary acts from the place/region you're from. Some hotels will have a small bottle of milk in the fridge but not coffee, only tea, because their custom might be that they prefer english tea over coffee. Some places will have water instead of milk because they see cows as sacred. Só many examples that you'd find very peculiar if you travel around the world. So no, is not privilege. Most of this (before mentioned) hotel guests are from around the area and they generally pray with the Christian bible before they go to sleep. The hotel business is just catering to their customers. Want to make a big deal of it, fine but don't make a fuss if you get some criticism back at ya.
I guess their point was that it's not a particularly unfair privilege. E.g. imagine if everyone was Christian, would it be a privilege? What if only one person wasn't Christian? And so on...