Old Habits die hard.
It should be noted that even now, in the 21st Century, The Church still refuses to release it's condemnation of Galileo.
"...the Church, repository and guardian of truth, found it hard to admit error and change course. How hard? One hears nowadays that Rome has finally, almost, rehabilitated Galileo after almost four hundred years." - pg. 181, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, D.S. Landes, 1998
The level of your naivete is staggering... "The Bible is considered sacred, so people would not manipulate it..." are you just trolling or do you really believe this???
I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you believe this. That being the case, you should maybe pick up a history book sometime. Take a look at the Church from the 13th thru 16th centuries.
What will you find? Kings posting their own Popes ("The Babylon Captivity"), Popes involved in love triangles with their son and daughter, Orgies that would make Romans blush, Parties costing 100,000s of ducats, Popes giving Red hats to nine year olds, and the selling of forgiviness for sins that people will commit in the future.
There was absolutelty NOTHING sacred in the church for the entire span of 300+ years.
And your ignorant suggestion that "the rulers wanted to "keep the people dumb" is just propaganda" is an even dumber statement. You could have atleast provided a source for such a foolish proclomation.
The Church forbade ANYTHING to be written in the venacular. Why? Because only priests were allowed to learn to read and write Latin. The church did not even want people to be able to read the Bible. In fact, it was highly discouraged. Reading the Bible was only for those of the cloth, the common man was too "dumb" to be given such a privledge.
When Erasmus wrote criticisms of the Church in Latin, the Pope read them, laughed and enjoyed them as good entertainment. When Erasmus threatened to write in venacular he was threatened with excommunication...he moved to England shortly thereafter.
I could site you hundreds of other such occassion, but i suspect that given your disposition to make uninformed blanket statements with no sources you are not interested to begin with.
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Old Habits die hard. It should be noted that even now, in the 21st Century, The Church still refuses to release it's condemnation of Galileo. "...the Church, repository and guardian of truth, found it hard to admit error and change course. How hard? One hears nowadays that Rome has finally, almost, rehabilitated Galileo after almost four hundred years." - pg. 181, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, D.S. Landes, 1998
The level of your naivete is staggering... "The Bible is considered sacred, so people would not manipulate it..." are you just trolling or do you really believe this???
I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you believe this. That being the case, you should maybe pick up a history book sometime. Take a look at the Church from the 13th thru 16th centuries.
What will you find? Kings posting their own Popes ("The Babylon Captivity"), Popes involved in love triangles with their son and daughter, Orgies that would make Romans blush, Parties costing 100,000s of ducats, Popes giving Red hats to nine year olds, and the selling of forgiviness for sins that people will commit in the future.
There was absolutelty NOTHING sacred in the church for the entire span of 300+ years.
And your ignorant suggestion that "the rulers wanted to "keep the people dumb" is just propaganda" is an even dumber statement. You could have atleast provided a source for such a foolish proclomation.
The Church forbade ANYTHING to be written in the venacular. Why? Because only priests were allowed to learn to read and write Latin. The church did not even want people to be able to read the Bible. In fact, it was highly discouraged. Reading the Bible was only for those of the cloth, the common man was too "dumb" to be given such a privledge.
When Erasmus wrote criticisms of the Church in Latin, the Pope read them, laughed and enjoyed them as good entertainment. When Erasmus threatened to write in venacular he was threatened with excommunication...he moved to England shortly thereafter.
I could site you hundreds of other such occassion, but i suspect that given your disposition to make uninformed blanket statements with no sources you are not interested to begin with.