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Without the clergy guiding them, and with religion still a very important factor in the average person's life, their fate rested in their own hands, Simpson said.

Yes, how sad... dimwit!

Evidently this jackass is ignorant of the circumstances surrounding the lack of scriptures available to the general populace during the dark ages. The scripts were strictly controlled by the church, and it was unlawful for others to have them. The church strictly interpreted the scriptures to suit it's own purposes. This period was a very dark period, with religious persecution on a large scale. To act as if the release of scriptures was the inception of trouble, isn't just nonsense, it's disinformation on a grand scale. King James may not have been the first, but at his directive scholars of the day brought together the scritpures and formed what we commonly refer to as the Bible today.

Look what White Christians have brought the world. Then please tell me how that relates to what Muslems have presented to humanity.

There was no Spanish Inquisition. I repeat, the Spanish Inquisition is a myth. Persecution in the church did not start till the insidious-evil-intolerant-burgousie-oppressor Protestants put the Bible into the hands of the common man.

To the reeducation camps with you.

it's disinformation on a grand scale

Your post is disinformation on a grand scale. Possession of the Bible per se was never illegal, except in one area in southern France in the 13th century, which prohibition lasted for about 50 years.

Possession of Protestant bibles was illegal in England for a period of time leading up the reformation ... whereupon possession of Catholic bibles or anything else Catholic became illegal.

Personal Bible ownership was scarce prior to the invention of the printing press for the simple reason that a Bible (if you could even read it) cost about what a moderately-priced new car costs today.