This is so unbelievably absurd. You're not arguing from reality.
Topic: The U.S. Constitution was purposely hidden from the citizenry because a copy of it wasn't made for every citizen. The reason being, the Founding Fathers were intent on imposing tyranny on the ignorant masses in South Carolina. Discuss.
It literally took a reformation to unlock the kingdom and to return the scriptures to the laity.
It wasn't a reformation. It was a divorce. A reformation implies a re-forming; something whole, in a different shape, not divided. And God hates divorce.
That's right! All those heretics burnt at the stake for possessing Bibles had it coming! They had no business studying God's Word themselves! They should have known it was their priest's job to tell them what to believe. And when he did so, they should have shut up, and fallen in line.
That lousy Gutenberg fella really screwed things up. Why couldn't he have just kept his creativity to himself! If he hadn't come along, we'd all still be in one church!
Until Vatican II the laity needed permission from the priest to even read the bible. The constitition did not require the citizenry to seek permission from the government to read it. The constitution, like the Reformation, returned freedom to the people and unbound the chains of tyranny.
The reformation returned scripture to its proper place as the final authority on all matters of doctrine and returned the body of Christ to a proper relationship with God. The reformation returned the gospel to its proper foundation, one of faith and not works.