Fox New and other 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. Travel is a given for religion and culture expert and author Dr. Alex McFarland, who stays in well over 100 hotels every year as he speaks and preaches all over the country.
“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.
Thousands of stories like this one prove that there truly is life in the Word of God. I pray our nation’s eyes will be opened to the fact that stripping society of anything to do with Christianity or Jesus Christ is not helping anyone. IN fact, the quest for political correctness is hurting all of us so much more than we know.”
A spokesperson for Gideon International, which has placed Bibles in hotels for decades, said the survey is “reflective of increasing secularism and independence in the world,” resulting in an “erosion of spiritual awareness.”