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Originally Posted by anleja
Bill Hicks: Who are the fucking Gideons? Ever met one? No! Ever seen one? No! But they're all over the fucking world, putting bibles in hotel rooms! Every hotel room: "This bible was placed here by a Gideon." I've been here all day, I ain't seen shit. I saw the house keeper come and go, I saw the mini-bar guy come and go, I'd never laid eyes on a fucking Gideon. What are they, ninjas? Where are they? Where are they from, Gidea? What the fuck are these people? I'm gonna capture a Gideon. I'm gonna make that my hobby. I'm gonna call the front next one day, "yeah, I don't seem to have a bible in my room."
Sorry, couldn't help it. I'm sure that taking a bible from a hotel room is not a problem, both legally or spiritually.
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This is funny stuff, although one of my high school math teachers really was a Gideon. It seems that the Gideons are also radically opposed to capital punishment, and she told us all about this poor young guy she was trying to help out on Death Row in our state capitol. She went on and on about this guy and what a good person he was, blah blah blah. And then she mentioned his name...
He was our town's worst mass murderer and none of us wanted to see this guy get away with anything except some free electricity.
Ironically enough, it was my future father-in-law who prosecuted him and got him sentenced to death.