I’m Catholic—and I bet I own more Bibles than you—and I bet more of them are in need of rebinding from use than yours are. To begin with, in Hebrew I have two copies of the British and Foreign Bible Society OT, the JPS Hebrew-English, Zondervan’s Hebrew-Greek, the Stuttgartensia, Owens, and Howard’s Hebrew Matthew. Volume I of Owens, along with my BDB need rebinding, though not nearly as badly as my RSV or my fourth edition of the Nestle-Aland.
As for not speaking ill of our religion—how about Pope Pius VI’s line to Napoleon: You silly little man, if we and our priests can’t destroy the Church in 18 centuries, what makes you think that you can?
That is a fantastic quote from Pius VI! Marvelous! Thanks for posting...