[terycarl]

2nd amendment mama to terycarl Nope! You are totally incorrect! The Catholic church DID, in fact, ban laity from owning and reading the Bible. Instead of parroting what the priests have taught you, you should do your own research.

You are right....in the middle ages there were perverted forms of the Bible or renditions of portions of it which the church rightly condemned.

Remember, in those days the church was the ONLY protector of the Christian Bible and they became VERY testy when heretics challenged their authority. They feared that peopple were being led away from Christianity toward pagan or otherwise errant beliefs. This has nothing to do with the reformation, it was well before that and those who opposed the church were in no way Christian.

The 10 hundreds, 11 hundreds and 12 hundreds were when most of this took place.

[2nd amendment mama]

You are right....in the middle ages there were perverted forms of the Bible or renditions of portions of it which the church rightly condemned.

Now you're just fabricating things! These weren't perverted forms of the Bible.

[Elsie]

You are right....in the middle ages there were perverted forms of the Bible or renditions of portions of it which the church rightly condemned.

So true.

Too bad your CHOSEN RELIGION did not mention them specifically in the 'canon'.

[Elsie]

Remember, in those days the church was the ONLY protector of the Christian Bible and they became VERY testy when heretics challenged their authority.

Solomon is proven right again:

There's nothing new under the sun.

[CynicalBear]

>>They feared that peopple were being led away from Christianity toward pagan or otherwise errant beliefs.<<

Now that's funny right there I don't care who ya are. A pagan organization worried about people led away to pagan beliefs.