It’s always interesting to observe people’s reaction to the Bible.

Some find it inspirational, others threatening.

Evidently, Sir Ian McKellen falls into the latter category. When he comes across the Good Book in a hotel room, he routinely rips out certain pages.

The openly gay “Lord of the Rings” star looks for pages like the one in a section of Leviticus, which condemns homosexuality.

McKellen told Details magazine:

“I’m not proudly defacing the book, but it’s a choice between removing that page and throwing away the whole Bible.”

McKellen has apparently inspired others to engage in the same self-censorship of Scripture, saying:

“I got delivered a package of 40 of those pages… that had been torn out by a married couple I know. They put them on a bit of string so that I could hang it up in the bathroom.”

Apparently, McKellen and his spiritually similar friends are under the impression that with a shred of a page the Bible can be “adjusted” to their liking.