Why remove Bibles, but not porn, from hotels?

This story is a few years old but I just heard it yesterday.

“...a Swedish hotel guest named Stefan Jansson grew upset when he found a Bible in his room. He fired off an email to the hotel chain saying the presence of the Christian Scriptures was "boring and stupefying." This spring, the Scandic chain, Scandinavia's biggest, ordered the New Testaments removed. In a country where barely 3% of the population goes to church each week, the affair seemed just another step in Christian Europe's long march toward secularism. Then something odd happened: A national furor erupted. A conservative bishop announced a boycott. A leftist radical who became a devout Christian and talk-show host denounced the Biblical purge in newspaper columns and on television. A young evangelical Christian organized an electronic letter-writing campaign, asking Scandic: Why are you removing Bibles but not pay-porn on your TVs? Scandic, which had started keeping its Bibles behind the front desk, put the New Testament back in guest rooms. "Sweden is not as secular as we thought," says Christer Sturmark, head of Sweden's Humanist Association, a noisy assembly of nonbelievers to which the Bible-protesting hotel guest belongs.” (Andrew Higgins, 14 July, 2007)

Bible... from heaven?

Not long ago I heard a story set in Hungary during the Communist regime. A Christian had received a package of Bibles which had been smuggled into the country for him to distribute. With the Bibles in his car, and no chance to safely hide them, he was summoned to the local police station. He knew that if he was caught with the illegal Bibles he would face prison at least. So he prayed and then threw the Bibles one by one out the window of his car as he drove to the police. He was safe, but he felt awful about the Bibles being lost.

Years later he shared about this in a Hungarian church meeting. Afterwards an old man stood up and told how one day he had been travelling down the road in his horse and cart. Suddenly from nowhere a Bible fell onto the seat next to him. Intrigued he took it home and read it and eventually became a Christian.

This isn't just a brilliant story. It's a great reminder that prayer works even when we are scared and depserate!