Bhagavad Gita, Quran Join Gideon Bible on Hotel’s ‘Spiritual Menu’

That’s not all that’s on the spiritual menu at Nashville’s Hotel Preston. It also offers versions of the Bible, the Torah, the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism, the Book of Mormon and other spiritual texts in an effort to “make everyone feel at home when they’re away from home,” writes one of the hotel’s bloggers. “Yes, even you Scientologists out there!” I’m writing this post from a Hilton in Los Angeles, and this story is making me feel spiritually underfed.

All I found in my nightstand is a near-mint condition copy of a Gideon Bible and paperback edition of Conrad Hilton’s memoir “Be My Guest.” To be fair, the latter is blurbed as “a towering story of success and inspiration” and a story that “resonates with faith.” That could qualify it for a spiritual menu, no?

Or maybe not.

USA Today and the Tennessean have more on the story.

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