You are correct in that many hotel rooms are used for a variety of sinful practices that is why it is critical for the believer to pray over the room before sleeping, open up a Bible and place it on the bed, partake of Holy Communion, and exorcise the room of all demons.
I recall being in Rome, Italy, several years back, with the opportunity to have a private audience with the late Pope John Paul II and having horrific nightmares of war. The next morning I discovered over my bed in this Italian villa was a old framed picture of a war. No wonder I had problems sleeping as over my bed was a picture of war. I often tell people that travel that they need to take extra spiritual precautions as you never know what has occured in the rooms one sleeps in (and what cursed items that might be in the room).
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You are correct in that many hotel rooms are used for a variety of sinful practices that is why it is critical for the believer to pray over the room before sleeping, open up a Bible and place it on the bed, partake of Holy Communion, and exorcise the room of all demons.
Better you should worry about demons than about things that actually exist in hotel rooms, like bedbugs.
I recall being in Rome, Italy, several years back, with the opportunity to have a private audience with the late Pope John Paul II and having horrific nightmares of war. The next morning I discovered over my bed in this Italian villa was a old framed picture of a war. No wonder I had problems sleeping as over my bed was a picture of war. I often tell people that travel that they need to take extra spiritual precautions as you never know what has occured in the rooms one sleeps in (and what cursed items that might be in the room).
It must be demonic activity, since there's no naturalistic explanation for seeing a picture of war and then dreaming about it.
What, you mean it's BAD to have orgies in hotel rooms?
Damnit! Why doesn't anyone tell me these things!!
Think about it; there might've been homosexuals or people having pre-marital sex.
Or even worse, non-christians.
I recall being in Verona, Italy, a dozen years back and getting off with the chambermaid. She changed the sheets again before she left -- now that's professionalism.
On an entirely different tack, why do so many Americans feel the need to mention that Rome is in Italy? Does anyone really think that the author is more likely to mean Rome, that little town just off the I-75 in Georgia?
And what saddens me is that I didn't have to look that up, what with having a grasp of geography an' stuff.
I have a bag full of cursed items I carry everywhere and I make sure to place at least several in hotel rooms where I stay!
(sad fact: someone, somewhere, will take that statement seriously)
"I recall being in Rome, Italy, several years back, with the opportunity to have a private audience with the late Pope John Paul II..."
You talked to a dead pope?
And just because someone decided to get their kink on in the local Motel 6 doesn't mean that it's haunted by demons. I'd be more concerned about not sitting on the comforter on the bed, since it doesn't get washed often like the sheets do. Who knows how many people have fucked on it?
You are correct in that many hotel rooms are used for a variety of sinful practices that is why it is critical for the believer to pray over the room before sleeping, open up a Bible and place it on the bed, partake of Holy Communion, and exorcise the room of all demons.
You would be better off calling the Ghostbusters.
This doesn't strike me as fundie. So the guy decided to practise his religion in private while travelling--so what? He isn't trying to force it on anyone else, he's not saying anyone's going to hell for doing X, and he's not trying to say that someone else's oppression is justified by the Bible.
I'm sure many of us have our own sort of rituals we perform in order to feel comfortable sleeping in a strange place. And no, rituals don't need to be religious in nature; double-checking to make sure the sheets are, in fact, clean before you put anything on the bed is a ritual.
This reminds me of Stephen King's intro to the short story 1408 , in the collection Everything's Eventual :
"Hotel rooms are just naturally scary places, aren't they. Think about how many people have slept in that bed. How many of those people were sick? How many of them were losing their minds?"
I would think about how many people have had sex in that bed, and how many people masturbated in that bed. And I would, like GigaGuess, wonder how often they wash the sheets....
I have a bag full of cursed items I carry everywhere and I make sure to place at least several in hotel rooms where I stay!
Do you have a Necklace of Strangulation ? How about a Bowl of Watery Death , or a Rug of Smothering ? Or my all-time favorite cursed item, the Censer of Summoning Hostile Air Elementals ?
Wow...
I have traveled extensively all over the world, visited over 60 different countries. Earlier years saw over 200 days of traveling a year and not once have I ever had any issues, no matter what kind of pictures were on the wall. A bacteria culture foreign to my stomach - sure, but that only results in a bit of diarrhea...
Too bad that idea with pictures doesn't work - quite a few hotel rooms had half naked ladies in their paintings alas they never ended up in my bed for some strange reason. Damn demons!
And so the demons get trapped there? Must be one hell of a boring existence.
I find it staggering that at the end of the 1st decade of the 21st century that a supposedly reasonably educated individual can make such absurd statements.
You are correct in that many hotel rooms are used for a variety of sinful practices that is why it is critical for the believer to pray over the room before sleeping, open up a Bible and place it on the bed, partake of Holy Communion, and exorcise the room of all demons.
Or just use some Lysol.
What a load of hogwash. EVERYONE has difficulty sleeping the first, and even second night, in a strange place. Has nothing to do with demons, you moron!
I grew up in the Foreign Service, stayed in hotels on 3 continents before I was 12, and never once witnessed my conservative christian mother do or say any of this shit.
But then, she's quite sane.
@1177388
There's a difference between dirty sheets and demons.
The difference being that one actually exists, can you guess which?
The main implication here is that other people are not nearly as "holy" as they are and will harm their dreams/ability to sleep with their unholy nature. It's the paranoid delusion of this fundie that gets them here.
Last August I stayed in a hotel where 144 people died because the construction company wanted to save a couple bucks, and fucked up the elevated walkways crossing the atrium/lobby.
I guess I should have dreamed of dead people? Ghosts? Greedy contractors?
Yep, cause nightmares are TOTALLY a sign of spiritual "trauma"...
I bet you saw the picture BEFORE going to bed, and, combined with anxiety over meeting the Poop, caused your nightmares.
You are correct in that many hotel rooms are used for a variety of sinful practices that is why it is critical for the believer to pray over the room before sleeping, open up a Bible and place it on the bed, partake of Holy Communion, and exorcise the room of all demons.
That sounds suspciously like magic. OMG, a witch!!! Burn it with fire!
What I noticed is this:with the opportunity to have a private audience with the late Pope John Paul II
Yeah Rescuer is SO important that the Pope gets to have a "Private Conversation" with him\her.
Actually yeah, and after that Rescuer went on to slay Dracula.
It's essential to conduct spells like this, or news might escape of who you were sharing the hotel room with, what their sex is, or their age.
"and what cursed items that might be in the room"
Boy, I'll say! During spring break I found a *Spear of Backbiting* in the crapper at a Holiday Inn and I haven't been able to get rid of it since.
@#1177388
"This doesn't strike me as fundie. So the guy decided to practise his religion in private while travelling--so what? He isn't trying to force it on anyone else, he's not saying anyone's going to hell for doing X, and he's not trying to say that someone else's oppression is justified by the Bible."
I guess the fact that he believes that since people have sex in hotel rooms, the rooms get haunted by demons which need exorcising by his silly little rituals isn't worthy of ridicule? That, and the fact that he obviously looks down upon those evil people doing "sinful practices" in his hotel room, not to mention that in the 21st century someone still actually believes in demons floating around trying to "get" you means he is perfectly fundie.
Oh and even mainstream Christians think that someone who thinks they need to exorcise demons from a hotel room is fundie.
@BeemerRefugee1990
"Last August I stayed in a hotel where 144 people died because the construction company wanted to save a couple bucks, and fucked up the elevated walkways crossing the atrium/lobby."
My wife and I stayed in the Kansas City Hyatt Regency a few years ago. We did some quite fun sinful practices in the shower, which was large enough to move around in, unlike most small hotel showers.
Yeah, that sounds like the fundie's asshole-God, alright. He never punishes people for their actual behavior. If someone sins, He just punishes any random person who happens to be in (or later enters) the same room, state, country or planet.
@John
"If someone sins, He just punishes any random person who happens to be in (or later enters) the same room, state, country or planet."
Which is why all the gays in San Francisco made God hit New Orleans with Hurricane Katrina.
pardon me, but that site the OP was from, Ministering Deliverance,doesn't that sound kinda like wild homsexual activities around a river in Georgia?
or is that just me 'cause i live in jawja?
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Uh, wait.
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If the last occupants of a hotel room were an adulterous same sex couple who spent an entire week going at it I don't think that a Bible and a pile of meaningless mumbo jumbo is going to change anything. Whatever happened, happened - and it was none of your business.
Nor was it sinful, for normal people are not homophobic. The nearest thing to a cursed item in most hotel rooms is (dare I say it) the gideon Babble. What a waste of perfectly good trees.
Wait, so if I have a picture of a naked woman over my bed...
This is true, but not because of demons.
Not to mention semen stains on the walls ...
This terribly sickens me. If this is true, precognition then, stuff outside of stuff.
Also, “sinful practices”? You mean, like, people having sex in them :p?
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