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<\/a>The popular semi-erotic book \u201cFifty Shades of Grey\u201d has been making headlines for months. Likely seeking to\u00a0capitalize off of its viral popularity,\u00a0Wayne\u00a0Bartholomew, the head of Damson Dene Hotel in\u00a0the United Kingdom (along with the hotel\u2019s owner), has made a shocking decision. The lodge has replaced nightstand copies of the Bible with the controversial \u201cFifty Shades of Grey.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cI thought it would be a special treat for our guests to find it in their bedside cabinet and that includes the men too,\u201d\u00a0Bartholomew\u00a0said, explaining a portion of the reasoning behind his actions. \u201cThey are as desperate to get their hands on a copy as the women.\u201d<\/p>\n
While hotel visitors can still get copies of the Gideon Bible, should they want them, they will need to make a request for the traditional literary work at the front desk. To add insult to injury, the\u00a0Telegraph\u00a0reports<\/a> that\u00a0Bartholomew seemingly likened the Bible\u2019s contents to \u201cFifty Shades of Grey\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe Gideon Bible is full of references to sex and violence, although it\u2019s written using more formal language, so James\u2019s book is easier to read,\u201d he proclaimed<\/a>.<\/p>\n Damson Dene owner Jonathan Denby, who bought the hotel from a Methodist group 10 years ago, said he had been pondering for a long time what to do with the Gideons Bibles that had been placed in the rooms by the previous proprietors.<\/p>\n He decided that in a modern secular society it was \u201cwholly inappropriate\u201d to keep a religious book in people\u2019s private bedrooms, so the search was on for a replacement.<\/p>\n \u201cI was thinking originally of putting in a book by Ayn Rand \u2014\u00a0\u2018Atlas Shrugged\u2019 was my first thought,\u201d Denby told NBC News.<\/p>\n \u201c(But) because everybody is reading \u2018Fifty Shades of Grey,\u2019 we thought it would be a hospitable thing to do, to have this available for our guests, especially if some of them were a little bit shy about buying it because of its reputation.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Obviously, not everyone is amused by the move. Local faith leader The Rev Michael Woodcock sees the ploy as an attempt to capitalize of of the novel\u2019s monumental success.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is just a gimmick really. It is a shame that the Bible has been taken out,\u201d Woodcock said, according to the Telegraph<\/a>.\u00a0\u201dBut I am sure it will be put back in the future. The more attention that is drawn to this, the more bad publicity it gets.\u201d<\/p>\n Read More: http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/uk-hotel-replaces-nightstand-bibles-with-fifty-shades-of-grey\/<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193 \u00a0DISCLAIMER: Beliefnet puts paid advertisements on \u201cWatchwoman on the Wall\u201d blog site including some that would never be approved of by the King James Bible, Pastor Ernie Sanders of Doers of the Word Church, What\u2019s Right-What\u2019s Left Radio Ministry, the Voice of the Christian Resistance, Geauga County Right to Life and Donna Calvin.\u00a0 We at <\/span><\/span><\/em>www.WRWL.org<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span> do not condone, endorse, adhere to, practice or believe in many of the topics and some of what other bloggers promote or their religions at Beliefnet.\u00a0 However, Mrs. Calvin has no control of what Beliefnet displays.\u00a0\u00a0 She blogs at Beliefnet because she is in the missionary field ministering to true believers posting articles and commentaries informing pro-life, conservative Christians of recent anti-Christian acts and hostile legislation to God\u2019s Agenda and His Will for the world.\u00a0 Hopefully, unbelievers will read these along with the salvation message of Jesus Christ as written in the Gospel of John, Chapter 3, according to the King James Bible, and be saved.\u00a0 A missionary must go into the unbelievers\u2019 territory to reach them.\u00a0 Her mission is to Proclaim Warning to a Nation that has forgotten their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the only Truth, the Life, and the only Way to the One God the Father.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>According to NBC News<\/a>, the hotel\u2019s owner is doubling down on the decision to include the controversial book, spouting similar claims:<\/p>\n
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