Iran Launches Bible-Burning Campaign

Non in pane solo vivet homo, sed in omni verbo, quod procedit de ore Dei. (Matthew 4:4)

Iranian authorities began to systematically seize and destroy Bibles after a Shiite cleric issued an urgent warning about the spread of Christianity, according to Newsmax.

Authorities in northwestern Iran seized 6.500 Bibles, according to the Iranian Christian news organization Mohabat News.

An official said of the seizure that "all religions are strengthening their power to confront Islam; otherwise, what does this huge number of Bibles mean?".

The agency has reported several other recent incidents of Bibles and other Christian literature being seized and sometimes publicly burned.

Mohabat reports that the government-connected cleric, Ayatollah Hadi Jahangosha, warned of "the spread of Christianity among our youth", pointing to burgeoning satellite programming, literature, and religious articles promoting the Western tradition.

Well, Christianity is actually an Eastern religion.

Jesus Christ, our God manifest in the flesh, is the Torah personified, which has its roots in Egypt and in older civilizations.

State sponsored Bible burning is an utterly tragic sign of the times.

The Bible is more than a book - it is a person:

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God", see John 1:1.

You cannot build a lasting civilization on another foundation than Jesus Christ and the word of God.

That is the eternal and timeless rock.

"Non est Iudaeus neque Graecus, non est servus neque liber, non est masculus neque femina; omnes enim vos unum estis in Christo Iesu", Galatians 3:28.