When people check into the “hotel, motel, Holiday Inn” they test the free Wi-Fi, review the premium channels, stash their valuables in the room safe, and then open the drawers to see if a previous guest left behind a watch or jewelry, only to find a Gideon’s Bible.

It is incongruous to find a Bible in a motel room, a lodging house is not a rectory, and for every minister or nun who checks into a motel room, there are a thousand libertines, and the last thing they need is a Bible.

It does not take a rocket scientist or a concierge to read the room and to deduce that Holy Scriptures are the last thing on the mind of lovers checking into a hotel or motel room. Might I suggest a copy of the Kuma Sutra might be more appropriate? Or a condom or a pamphlet explaining safe sex practices?

I have never checked into a motor inn and discovered a well-worn Bible, most guest do not open the Good Book, they do not read a single verse. An immense waste of money, why not just leave a religious tract with the address and phone number of a local church, for the convenience of the married guests who feel guilty after engaging in a tryst with a stranger?