[Mark17]

Hey MM, it’s been many decades, since I rather uncerimoniously dumped the Catholic Church, that I cannot remember for sure what the priests and nuns told us about reading scriptures. I don’t think I remember them telling us not to read it. They just told us to let a priest interpret it for us. Maybe these dudes can tell a bunch of third worlders, not to read the scriptures, but I was a super rebellious, independent minded, American catholic. Telling me I couldn’t read the Bible, is like putting a red cape in front of a bull. I just told them to take a hike, and got a Bible.
Now, I am heavy into YOPIOS, and I am my own pope. 😁 I imagine some might not like that. Such is life. I will still do my YOPIOS.

[Luircin]

If only other people would read the Bible when being told not to read it, we might not have as many annoying ignorant atheists around.