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Just a quick reply in a drive-by. More later.

I provided the tertullian.org link to the "Decretum Gelasianum: De Libris Recipiendis et Non Recipiendis" so that you could have it in English.

Since the source website is so offensive to you, here it is in Latin:

De Libris Recipiendis et Non Recipiendis

And on Enoch, the Catholic Church eliminated it in the late 300's. Other books which also were not accepted into the canon we not "burned." But the Church singled out Enoch and other writings it hated and eliminated them. Enoch is particularly offensive because it is quoted in Scripture.

There is no justification or excuse for burning books. Period.

There is no justification or excuse for burning books. Period.

I agree, but in terms of all the people of time, we may well be in a minority. The general opinion seems to have been that book burning and censorship were positive duties of the authorities, from Plato to Boston to Girl Scouts collecting and burning the awful, 'orrible comic books of the 40's. (They'd faint if they saw manga.)

I guess we can look down on Washington and Jefferson for having slaves, or we can be grateful that little by little Christians saw that slavery was fundamentally intolerable. Half empty/ half full.

I provided the tertullian.org link to the "Decretum Gelasianum: De Libris Recipiendis et Non Recipiendis" so that you could have it in English

That's really considerate.

Since the source website is so offensive to you, here it is in Latin:

LOL! The document is a fraud in any language. I documented that Leo I was not the pope in 366 and the doucment calls him the 'blessed pope Leo.'

And on Enoch, the Catholic Church eliminated it in the late 300's. Other books which also were not accepted into the canon we not "burned." But the Church singled out Enoch and other writings it hated and eliminated them. Enoch is particularly offensive because it is quoted in Scripture.

The Bible was no canonized until the end of the 4th century. Codex Sinaiticus (c 350 AD) contains Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermes.

It all shows that no one really knew for sure what the canon was until the Church made a decision at the Counci of Carthage August 28, 397 AD and listed the folloing books as the Christian canon: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Josue, Judges, Ruth, 4 books of Kingdoms, 2 books of Paralipomenon, Job, Psalter of David, 5 books of Solomon, 12 books of Prophets, Isaias, Jeremias, Daniel, Ezechiel, Tobias, Judith, Esther, 2 books of Esdras, 2 books of Machabees, and in the New Testament: 4 books of Gospels, 1 book of Acts of the Apostles, 13 letters of the Apostle Paul, 1 of him to the Hebrews, 2 of Peter, 3 of John, 1 of James, 1 of Judas, and the Apocalypse of John.

If the Church hated Enoch, the Church would have thrown out Jude as well.