FIFTY SHADES OF GREY AND THE BIBLE

One of the remaining evidences of light in our dark world is pulling open a drawer in a hotel room and seeing a Gideon Bible. Just to see it is like pushing aside the drapes and letting sunshine into the dark room. This week I read that one hotel is going to replace all its room's Gideon Bibles with the current bestseller, Fifty Shades of Grey. The reason given was that some people are offended by the presence of the Gideon Bible in their room and, besides, "no one reads the Bibles anyway." I'm sure most have heard that Fifty Shades of Grey is a book, simply put, about sexual perversion. From the reviews, it appears that it is not even well written. Reading the article, I first wondered if any one considered that some one might be offended by the presence of Fifty Shades of Grey. If the Bible offends someone, it goes. If something like Fifty Shades of Grey offends someone, that someone just needs to be enlightened, cultured, and come out of the religious dark ages. Secondly, I mused that whatever its title, the book Fifty Shades of Grey is really just one dark hue of black. The hotel's switching out the Bible for Fifty Shades of Grey was a trading the light for the darkness. Any who now opens the drawer in the hotel room will be opening themselves to the dark. Third, the assumption that no one is reading the Bible and everybody is reading or wants to read Fifty Shades of Grey is simply not true. People are reading the Bible. And not just Christians. Many people have no desire to read the novel. Why settle for a shade of gray when one can have the light? And, besides, guess which is the all time best-seller.