It's not hard to make Congressional Democrats look like amateurs. They are like large children incapable of critical thought and lacking in the foresight to view an idea from beginning to end and visualize all the natural consequences of that idea...such as raising taxes on the "rich". The reason they are in power at all is because Americans in general are dumbed down dimwits.

There's two ways to look at the Catholic Church's defense of the Bible. In the early church some attempted to introduce heretical and gnostic works as inspired scripture. The Church responded by officiating a canon in the counsels of Rome and Hippo and rejecting all books outside of it. The faithful preservation of the holy Scriptures through the centuries has been a top priority especially as scribes set about the often lifelong task of making copies by pen and parchment. To ensure against the infiltration of errors or outright revisions, copies could not be made without the imprimatur of the bishop.

It's easy to second guess history, but never wise. We have today a Bible that we can rest assured is uncorrupted because of the due diligence of the Catholic Church. Martin Luther was a good example of why this diligence was needed. After he defected and began his own German copies, he removed books and rewrote parts of the epistles to promote his "faith only" doctrine. He did so citing no greater authority than himself. What he did was precisely what the Church had been defending the Bible against for many centuries, even by force of law at times.

My question to you is are you trying to make the point that the CC today is persecuting those with Bibles or are you approaching this an an historical practice?

Last edited by via_dolorosa; Thu Dec 16, 2010 2:40 PM.
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