Do motel owners put Bibles in the room because their customers might forget their Bible and appreciate a courtesy one in the room? If that's the case why not just keep a few at the front desk and let customers ask for them? Or are they trying to push their religion on others?

It's because Christianity is the most widely spread religion. It's not up to motel owners to know that their guests might be Jewish, or Atheist, or whatever. It's complimentary, like mints on pillows.

Also I sometimes read the bibles when I truly have absolutely nothing better to do.

That's stupid, they should remove bible and do like you said, put some at the front desk and it would be the responsibility of the customers to go and get one.

...If the customers care so much about their bible, why don't they bring their own bible? I don't get it.

If you go on a trip and leave for seven days, you bring up your own bible (if you need it) you shouldn't except the place where you go to have some for you. I mean, if you go to a camping, you don't except mother nature (irony) to have a bible for you.

Who reads bibles when they're on holidays anyway?

I wouldn't use it, but I recognize it's very popular, and obviously there are some people who like to have one around (who knows? Maybe a vampire will attack in the night. Vampires are known to be afraid of literature). A lot of Japanese hotels/motels have a copy of the book on Zen Buddhism. I'd be willing to bet a lot of Middle Eastern ones have Qurans in them (especially in the countries that are governed by the Quran).

Keep this in mind: whether it be a rock or a grain of sand, in water, they both sink.
-Oldboy

lol... a vampire?

Sounds like the beginning of a top-ten-reasons-to-have-a-Bible-in-my-motel-room list. Maybe I'm just not looking at it right.

I am sure in time the Bible will disappear from the hotels down the road.They are too expensive to be replaced.I am not advocating stealing the Bible...I am saying the hotels will not replace them.

In the US these bibles are not placed there by the hotels. There is a ministry called the Gideons who put free bibles in hotels, hospitals, nursing home etc. They are paid for by contributions. Throw it away if you like maybe someone not as fortunate as you may find it in the trash and read it and be helped by it's teachings. What's the harm? No one makes you pick it up or read it. Stick it in the night stand and you will never know it is there. I personally take my own and yes I read it even on vacation.

How many would complain if Hugh Hefner donated Playboy mags for every hotel room?

People treat Christianity like it is some kind of plague and that anything to do with it is going to mysteriously jump out and infect them.

"For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God" Romans 8:14

I think that if you feel the need to read the bible while staying at a hotel, you can bring your own. It's not right to simply have one placed there by default. The acts of these Gideons sounds very offensive to me, and inspires me to create my own campaign to leave information on scientific issues and anti-religion information in various public places and churches as well. If they can do it, so can I.

As for your question, BHughes, I would be offended if Hugh Hefner donated Playboy to hotel rooms, also. It doesn't matter if it's the Bible or pornographic material or anything else - it doesn't need to be pushed on me.

I'm agreeing with Kovich, while also agreeing with a point I made; Christianity is the world's most widely spread religion, and so some people thought it would be a good idea to place a book of lies in every hotel room in existance (If it were the torah (Jewish bible) I wouldn't mind, except I can't read Hebrew, haha).