@LuckyGuy
What you’ve expressed is basically the viewpoint of every Christian whom I’ve ever met.
There are some who underline passages for Bible Study (sometimes using multiple marker colors coded by subject) and usually carry theirs with them to each and every meeting.
Understandably, over time, they can get rather tattered and raggedy looking from frequent use.
Others don’t get such heavy use because Bible study is primarily done at home and they don’t normally carry them everywhere.
But regardless of which, I’ve yet to encounter anyone who would utter death threats over destruction of a Bible. They’d just go and buy another. If someone had purposely destroyed their Bible they might get aggravated about it but that’s about as far as it goes.
I’ve been told by some Christians I know who are Orthodox (usually Greek or Russian) that Bible kissing is not unusual but I don’t know of any other Christian groups for whom that’s a normal practice.
It’s a book printed on paper just like any other. It’s the ideas which are given reverence. Even for those who are extreme Bible literalists, I’ve yet to encounter any going so far as death threats. That’s why I questioned that assertion made in the first post. It just doesn’t happen.
Maybe aggravation, but death threats? Unheard of by me and anyone else whom I know.