© The Israel Museum. I was talking to a Catholic priest years ago, and he told me that the Dead Sea Scrolls had more historical significance than religious sig

© The Israel Museum. I was talking to a Catholic priest years ago, and he told me that the Dead Sea Scrolls had more historical significance than religious significance. (I don't know if that was the church's position or just his.) Given that, and the fact that I'm even not religious, I don't know why the copyright bothers me so much, but it does. Placing a copyright on the images of religious documents strikes me as a contradiction in purposes. Imagine if God had inscribed the Ten Commandments with "©For All Eternity, God. All Rights Reserved."