[InterestedQuestioner]

Actually, I'm a Lutheran. If you can read the scriptures in your own language, then you can thank my church, not yours.

That's a good one, I admire your zing. To be truthful, however, scriptures were written in the vernacular long before the Doctor Martin Luther's day, and that included English, well, older versions of English, at any rate. We do, however, thank Dr. Martin Luther for a very lively discussion about justification.

[horse_doc]

To be truthful, however, scriptures were written in the vernacular long before the Doctor Martin Luther's day, and that included English

I'll grant you that some flawed translations were around before Luther, but you had to have a lot of political clout to avoid getting burned simply for having a copy. They certainly were not available to the masses. It took a few hundred thousand Protestant corpses to pile up, before the average Joe could dare to read the Gospels on their own.

But I've been willing to forgive the Catholic Church for the 16th Century, ever since John Paul II helped kill Communism. :-)