This sure sounds like a hate crime to us. Maybe devout Catholic President Joe Biden or Attorney General Merrick Garland will put out an official statement decrying the burning of 200 Bibles, intentionally set on fire in a trailer left in an intersection. Remember how huge a news story it was in 2005 when an American interrogator at Guantanamo Bay flushed a Quran down a toilet to unnerve Muslim detainees? That story was everywhere — and then Newsweek and NPR and everyone else retracted it.

Imagine how fast Garland would be on this if they were Qurans.

Yeah, it's just people expressing their right to free expression. Nothing to get upset about.

Well, they can't pin this on a Christian nationalist, so there's no story.

Where'd they get the Bibles? Did they raid a church?

Isn't some stunt like this meant to generate an environment of fear in the Christian community? Should Christians feel safe?