text: why do christians love banning and/or burning books so much? why is it they want to tell me what to read, watch, etc.  the only books i know of that you can prove cause violence are the bible and quran, why not start there? it is not just christians that have burned books, it was very common during the reign of the nazis in germany. i guess some people think it is far better to buy and burn something that they object to than to try to ignore it and hope it goes away. of course, i have to laugh when i hear that recently a group of people have bought books to burn them when this still gives the author the royalties to book sales and the negative publicity about the book usually give the book more interest by others, again raising sales of the book.