Sister: I guess I should leave my shoes outside.

Me: You didn't wipe them on the grass?

Sister: Well, we were outside for the last three or four hours burning stuff.

Me: Burning? Like boxes and papers...

Mary: Books.

Me: ... Books. ... You had a book burning?

Sister: Yes. Most of them were Bibles.

Me: YOU BURNED A BARREL FULL OF BIBLES?

context: The house is roach infested, hence wipe your shoes in the grass or leave them outside. And the books were unsalvageable.

But literally sister just came home from a book burning. A Bible burning. aaahhgggghhhhh

Ohhhhhh yikes that must have been a pretty conflicting experience for her!

Ehhhhh probably not, burning is considered respectful. (There was an American flag in there, too, and that's what you're supposed to do to dispose of one.) It's just uhhhhh not every day you burn a bunch of books. And that they're Bibles.