[dignan3]

Also interesting that the Reformation took place when the printing press became available. Finally, information could be made available to the masses in uncensored form.

And was/is that always a good thing? Take a look at the internet. Any nutcase with a computer can publish, for the whole world to see, anything they want. It doesn't matter how factual their material is because there are no editors nor hardly any oversight. At the time, the printing press was comperable to the internet in its technological impact.

But your right, Luther and his ilk would have had a very hard time, and most likely would have failed, in spreading their heresies if it weren't for the printing press. What's funny is that a Catholic invented the thing. Oh what irony!

Pray for John Paul II

[Iowegian]

And was/is that always a good thing?

Not always, but overall, YES freedom and unfiltered information are good. But the RCC and it's members do have a problem with those concepts. They interfere with the RCC's own fascist plans.

[OLD REGGIE]

And was/is that always a good thing? Take a look at the internet. Any nutcase with a computer can publish, for the whole world to see, anything they want. It doesn't matter how factual their material is because there are no editors nor hardly any oversight. At the time, the printing press was comperable to the internet in its technological impact.
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You are so right. The world went to hell in a hand-basket as soon as the RCC lost the ability to decide what we could read or write.

Those who describe a period of history known as the "Dark Ages" are liars and should be censored. The real truth is it was a glorious period for mankind.