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To: HarleyD
When the first Bibles were printed (which the Roman Church Council of Trent forbid people to read)

Um, Harley, the first printed Bible was a Catholic Latin Vulgate, printed by a Catholic layman, who spent the last years of his life as part of a Catholic bishop's household, essentially as close to being a cleric as he could be without actually being ordained.

The Council of Trent never forbade anyone to read the Bible, whether printed or not.

What you are apparently thinking of is that Protestant translations, including the KJV, were placed on the Index of Forbidden Books after Trent. Unless you think that "the Bible" means the KJV but not, e.g., the Douay-Rheims or the Vulgate, it's ridiculous and wrong to say that Bible reading was forbidden after the Reformation.

If you guys are going to make charges against us, at least try to get them right.

205 posted on 01/12/2007 7:47:17 AM PST by Campion ("I am so tired of you, liberal church in America" -- Mother Angelica, 1993)
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To: Campion

I stand corrected. What I should have said was that Trent forbid free thought and free press in matters of the Bible.


215 posted on 01/12/2007 9:04:49 AM PST by HarleyD ("...even the one whom He will choose, He will bring near Himself." Num 16:5)
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