The Catholic syndicate has a long criminal record of forbidding commoners from reading the bible and was executing church members for such heresy right up thru the 1850s.
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Domino go frisk’em
Roman Catholic “Church” Prohibited Bible Reading
The following is excerpted from an article by David Cloud entitled, “The KJV and the Latin Vulgate”.
The Council of Trent (1545-1564) placed the Bible on its list of prohibited books, and forbade any person to read the Bible without a license from a Roman Catholic bishop or inquisitor. The Council added these words: “That if any one shall dare to read or keep in his possession that book, without such a license, he shall not receive absolution till he has given it up to his ordinary.”
Rome’s attempt to keep the Bible from men has continued to recent times. Pope Pius VII (1800-1823) denounced the Bible Society and expressed shock at the circulation of the Scriptures. Pius VII said, “It is evidence from experience, that the holy Scriptures, when circulated in the vulgar tongue, have, through the temerity of men, produced more harm than benefit.” Pope Leo XII called the Protestant Bible the “Gospel of the Devil” in an encyclical letter of 1824. Pope Gregory XVI (1831-1846) railed “against the publication, distribution, reading, and possession of books of the holy Scriptures translated into the vulgar tongue.” Pope Leo XII, in January 1850, condemned the Bible Societies and admitted the fact that the distribution of Scripture has “long been condemned by the holy chair.”
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They were forbidding the reading of Protestant Bibles - which had books removed - primarily for two reasons:
1. The Reformers thought it was a good idea to go with the current Jewish scriptures as a basis for the Old Testament. Problem was, the then current scriptures had removed a number of books that they didn't like. So the 17th C. Jewish scriptures were not what Jesus and His Apostles read -- at the time, the LXX (Septuagint) was the current version. When Jesus quotes Scripture it's generally the LXX.
2. The Reformers also removed books that they thought were "too Catholic" such as Maccabees. Luther *almost* removed James but chickened out.