[SoothingDave]

What do you think “Romance languages” means if not translations? If the Church was forbidding them, they must have been unauthorized.

You need to read things in an historical perspective.

[boatbums]

What do you think “Romance languages” means if not translations? If the Church was forbidding them, they must have been unauthorized. You need to read things in an historical perspective.

Perhaps it is YOU who needs an historical perspective that goes beyond the sanitized, biased Roman Catholic revised version of history?

By 500 AD the Bible had been translated into over 500 languages. Just one century later, by 600 AD, it has been restricted to only one language: the Latin Vulgate! The only organized and recognized church at that time in history was the Catholic Church of Rome, and they refused to allow the scripture to be available in any language other than Latin. Those in possession of non-Latin scriptures would be executed! This was because only the priests were educated to understand Latin, and this gave the church ultimate power… a power to rule without question… a power to deceive… a power to extort money from the masses. Nobody could question their “Biblical” teachings, because few people other than priests could read Latin. The church capitalized on this forced-ignorance through the 1,000 year period from 400 AD to 1,400 AD knows as the “Dark and Middle Ages”. Pre-Refomation History of the Bible