I agree. If the people did not have their own copy of the Bible, they would be forced to listen to the Catholics without being able to see for themselves if what they were being told was Biblical or just made up tradition. When I was learning about this, I was doing genealogy research on my late husband’s ancestors back in the 1990’s. I had never really thought about it too much until then. I am learning a lot more about them from these threads.
Me too, and I am an ex catholic myself. I was always angry, as Metmom pointed out once before, because I thought so called Protestants were able to get away with things I could not get away with, like I had to go to mass, when I would rather watch a football game. I had to embarrass myself by going to confession to a priest, and they didn't. After those guys with the Navigatirs, helped lead me to the REAL Jesus, not the Jesus of different religions out there, I dumped all this ritualistic stuff. Do you think I made the right decision MamaB?
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