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Here are some more interesting parallels between then and now. https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-war-against-printing/ https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/

• graemep 3y ago
  I think there is a lesson to be learned from this: "even the most ignorant might might feel emboldened to try interpreting God’s words for themselves. As such, there was serious risk that honest folk would be led far from the path of orthodoxy" This happened, and (among other things) lead to contemporary Biblical literalism (an extreme from of the protestant elevation of the Bible as authoritative over theological argument and tradition). On the other hand, however bad a thing you think Biblical literalism is, I do not think anyone would argue (now, with the benefit of hindsight etc) that it would have been a good thing to censor books in the way Filippo wanted.