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Not sure if you're trying to be ironic but that's exactly how it worked for many hundreds of years: remember that historically speaking, outside the Church most
by zimzam 10y ago
Not sure if you're trying to be ironic but that's exactly how it worked for many hundreds of years: remember that historically speaking, outside the Church most people couldn't read. One source estimates that in 1300 CE only 6% of England's population was literate! "Bible counselors", aka priests, were indeed the only way for most people to get information from the bible.
- cariaso 10y agoIt didn't matter that they were literate, since printing a bible in english was still illegal. It was only in 1526 that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tyndale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tyndale created the first bible in English, allowing the common folk to go around the 'Bible counselors'. As a result the church had him convicted of heresy and executed by strangulation, after which his body was burnt at the stake.