[squireofgothos]

This is rich. "Reading became a tightrope of terror across an abyss of predestination"
As they say-- a mind is a terrible thing...

[DManA]

More problematic for the elites of the day, they could read for themselves that the “Divine Right of Kings” was pure balderdash.

[DManA]

BTW, what does this trash have to do with science?

[SolidWood]

English Reformation can be used to understand the global political situation today and the growth of Islamic extremism

Yeah, 9/11 is to be blamed on those wily English Protestants!/barf

[iowamark]

So we are supposed to believe that Islamic terrorism was created by English Protestants?

Who knew?!

[Fitzcarraldo]

All the world's current problems attributed to an English version of the Bible.

Another block placed in the tomb the hysterical God haters are trying to seal us into.

[Domandred]

and legitimates violence and repression," Simpson said, "and the same is also true of Christian fundamentalists."

Yes Christians hijack airplanes, blow buildings up, suicide bomb pizza parlors, behead journalists, riot about political cartoons, and throw people in jail for naming a child's toy Jesus Christ.

[Da Coyote]

“Why is this in the science section?”

Ans: One of the premier coups of the liberal “arts” jokesters was to create academic areas called “Political Science” and “Social Science”. Of course, when compared to real science, both of these titles are Oxymorons. For the most part, practitioners of these trades demonstrate only the “moron” part.

[DoughtyOne]

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.

[Monterrosa-24]

The level of biblical scholarship in the 1600s was soooo much higher than what is bandied about today that there is simply no comparison. The Presbyterians, various types of Independents and Separatists, Anabaptists, and various schools of thought within the King’s Church, all conducted debates on a higher plane than what goes on today. Yet “fundamentalists” like Cromwell himself could call for an understanding and common belief from the “various sects”.

[blu]

How much was the author paid? I could have told you this after teaching 10th grade world history!! Duh!

[Theo]

Welcome to FR.

[PAR35]

Pingworthy?

[ari-freedom]

Welcome to FR.

[JWinNC]

LOL

So, I guess the Apostles were not the dreaded “fundamentalists” and the idea that the words of God might be literal and true was a later idea.

jw

[Alas Babylon!]

Heather Whipps....?
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Well, what?

[stinkerpot65]

Interesting peek into the liberal elite mind. They intentionally destroy the school system.

[fgoodwin]

Another sad attempt to draw a moral equivalence between Christianity and radical Islamic terrorists.

I think getting the Bible into the hands of the common man was the best thing to ever happen to the West, as the Reformation and the Renaissance went hand-in-hand to bring civilization out of the Dark Ages and into modern life.

[wastedpotential]

I have said for some time that there is an attempt to show an equivalence between islamic extremists and evangelical Christianity. This allows the “liberal” thinker to have his disdain for Bush and feel justified about it.

[mamelukesabre]

Interesting. All this time I thought the wycliff bible was the first english bible.

Wait a sec! I’m right. This article is full of BS! The tyndale bible was 1534, and the wycliff bible was 1385! I just looked it up in my old book of english literature printed in 1924.

These idiots don’t know a dam thing.