“If you are going to cut and paste from an anti-Catholic website you ought to at least have the integrity to admit and cite it.”
I did not visit an anti-Catholic website.
People joke about Wiki, but it was sourced and cited and I had no reason to believe it was false.
I have even seen posters at my public library, “Banned Books,” and the Bible has been listed on them as banned by the RC church. I’m not making it up. Of course I was not present personally, who of us could have been, but my sources seem credible.
To the RC church’s credit, they haven’t banned it for a long time, so, good for them.
But we might note that reformers like Wycliffe were burned at the stake for translating it into the common language (English). This was a terrible policy and a terrible occurrence.
You wrote:
“But we might note that reformers like Wycliffe were burned at the stake for translating it into the common language (English). This was a terrible policy and a terrible occurrence.”
And it never happened. Wycliffe was dead for more than 40 years (of a stroke) when his bones were burned. He was never charged with, tried for, or burned for translating the Bible since that wasn’t a crime.
It never ceases to amaze me how many Protestant anti-Catholics are poorly educated enough to actually believe Wycliffe was executed or executed for translating the Bible. Wycliffe was a heretic. And Protestant anti-Catholics are just ignorant.
Amazing how these threads begin with an insulting frontal assault on Protestants and pretty soon it’s all about defending poor put upon Catholics.
But we might note that reformers like Wycliffe were burned at the stake for translating it into the common language (English). This was a terrible policy and a terrible occurrence.Wow, if the claim was true it would have been horrific, but thankfully - like most anti-Catholic diatribes this is a fact free screed. It makes the rest of the claims by this poster suspect, like:
I did not visit an anti-Catholic website.Well, where did you get this falsehood then, a pro-Catholic website? And then there is this claim:
I have even seen posters at my public library, “Banned Books,” and the Bible has been listed on them as banned by the RC church.Wow, what scholarship, posters about "banned books"! Did it ever occur to you that the Bible has sometimes been banned by secular authorities? Maybe that is what the poster was warning about?