The head of a nationwide atheist group who is publicly calling upon hotel chains to offer up Bible-free accommodations has penned an op-ed directly responding to pastors and theologians who have patently dismissed his arguments against the holy book.Dan Barker, co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, told TheBlaze that he decided to publish his piece, titled, “Pastors’ Defense of Hotel Bibles Got It All Wrong,” after an attorney with his atheist advocacy group notified him of the pastors’ story on TheBlaze.com.
“Maybe the driving point here is that: ‘Atheists are no less qualified to understand the bible than anyone else,’” Barker said in an email to this author. “If the Bible needs experts, scholars, pastors, and theologians to explain what it ‘really’ means, then God did a bad job making it clear.
He continued, “The Gideon Bibles in hotel rooms do not come accompanied by any ...