While rioters previously attacked federal buildings, businesses, and even officers, this weekend, they found a new target: Bibles.

A video posted to Twitter on Saturday shows rioters holding Black Lives Matter signs tossing Bibles into a fire. Bystanders stood and watched as the flames licked away at the pages of the Books.

“Left-wing activists bring a stack of Bibles to burn in front of the federal courthouse in Portland,” wrote the Twitter user, Ian Cheong, who posted the video. 

Donald Trump Jr. also commented on the video criticizing it as an escalation of Antifa. 

“Now we move to the book burning phase. I’m pretty sure ANTIFA doesn’t actually stand for what they say it stands for. Maybe just remove the anti part of [their] name and it’s perfect,” he wrote. 

Other Twitter users acknowledged that burning Bibles confirms what many have thought all along about the riots.

“There is a purpose to this. The protesters are signaling they will dismantle and replace our whole entire narrative,” tweeted another user. 

The Portland riots have been raging since George Floyd’s death in early May, even before “the ramped-up federal presence.” While many have claimed that these riots are “largely peaceful,” “gunfire, arson, stabbings, and other violence followed rioters” well through Saturday morning. 

Portland protesters burn many Bibles and American flag

Comment from Keep The Faith

This is not just a mere disregard for Christianity or the Bible itself. It is a harbinger of things to come. The left is going to be so intolerant of Christianity and also law and order in America that the religious right is it is going to react and require worship by making worship laws. It will be followed by the same sentiments in the rest of the world. The rioters are tending to display the principles of the French Revolution.