re: #5 beartiger

He was at least being consistent with his faith. In unrelated reading yesterday, I was somewhat surprised to learn that the book of Acts in the Bible condones the burning of books as a bellwether of spreading the word of the lord (Acts 19:19-20). This is one of the many reasons I’m not a Christian, I guess, since I consider the very thought of burning a book, even one I disagree with as much as the Koran, repugnant.

“Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all [men]: and they counted the price of them, and found [it] fifty thousand [pieces] of silver.”

I would say that’s a description of converts burning books (of magic?) to exhibit their new commitment. Still skeeves me out, but a bit different to burning someone else’s holy text as an act of public assholery.

Either way, the mainstream of Christian faith in the modern age does not advocate such an interpretation. You can find justification for damn near anything in Scripture, but the mores of the society that lives by that text also count.

So Jones is not being consistent, just a vindictive schmuck.