[mnehring]

After all, they used to chain the bibles to the churches back in the day.

You do know the history of chaining (ok locking up) the Bible in church came from the era when books were more precious than gold for the thousands of hours it took for one to transcribe it, only to risk loss by someone looking for something that would burn easily for their cooking fire? (later I'll describe the history of the run-on sentence).

[the invisib1e hand]

yes, but thanks for posting that for the many who’d rather assume the worst about everything the Church does.

[Salvation]

Well aware that Bibles were copied by hand and very precious.

That is, until the printing press.

[COBOL2Java]

Oh, now, there you go again. confusing them with facts!

[blues_guitarist]

"(later I'll describe the history of the run-on sentence). "

Now that's funny!

[Sherman Logan]

You do know the history of chaining (ok locking up) the Bible in church came from the era when books were more precious than gold for the thousands of hours it took for one to transcribe it, only to risk loss by someone looking for something that would burn easily for their cooking fire?

Or, more likely, something to steal and sell.

Even medieval peasants were presumably smart enough to know books were worth a lot of money.