To: wagglebee; Mad Dawg; D-fendr; Cronos; Jaded; Judith Anne
The YOPIOS crowd is reluctant to address the FACT that without widespread literacy and the means to mass-produce Bibles, what they call Christianity COULD NOT HAVE EXISTED prior to the invention of the printing press in the 15th century. What the "Catholic Apologist" crowd is reluctant to address is the FACT that the Gutenberg Press made the Reformation inevitable.
11,409 posted on
10/14/2010 2:27:36 PM PDT by
OLD REGGIE
(I am a Biblical Unitarian?)
To: OLD REGGIE; wagglebee; Mad Dawg; D-fendr; Cronos; Jaded; Judith Anne
What the "Catholic Apologist" crowd is reluctant to address is the FACT that the Gutenberg Press made the Reformation inevitable. What casual students of history are reluctant to address is the FACT that the availability of book presses made tracts of all kinds in quantity to distribute to the masses. The only FACT of relevance here is that with the availability of cheap printed works, literacy would be inevitable. Now we wander into the use of mass print and the consequences thereof.
11,416 posted on
10/14/2010 2:36:29 PM PDT by
MarkBsnr
(A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.)
To: OLD REGGIE
What the "Catholic Apologist" crowd is reluctant to address is the FACT that the Gutenberg Press made the Reformation inevitable. Fact? How can that be a known fact?
11,444 posted on
10/14/2010 3:36:50 PM PDT by
Mad Dawg
(Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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