Straight from the Pope's mouth

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That would b3e because it is stated in Mark 3:28–29, Matthew 12:31–32, and Luke 12:10 and varied smattering of Hebrews. But tradionally, in the RCC, even reading the wholey babble was a sin, so what may one expect?

 True enough, up until Gutenberg, then that changed slowly. Not really a problem as long as most of the flock remained illiterate. In most developed nations, universal literacy was not reached until well into the twentieth century as far as I'm aware. 

That was part of the game. If the plebs can't read it they must rely on what the priests tell them about it. Even though my kids are non-believers, they still had a weird happy clappy god is love picture of religion instilled in them by school. Until I started bible reading sessions with them.

At the Catholic school I attended, we were actively discouraged from reading the bible, "lest you become confused". I swear.

I believe you. Because I had the very same.

This was when I was 16 with some  major questions about doctrine.  So naturally I went home and read the whole thing from cover to cover. Being a moderately bright young chap, I soon understood why they didn't want me reading the bible.  I mean, the contradictions  and general bullshit in the OT, then the New Testament.  Finally the Book of Revelations. To this day, I cannot understand how that got into the Canon.   One explanation is that the whole thing us about The Roman Empire, and that early Xians would have understood that.

There was at the time a stonking great row about whether or not to include it. I can recall some religious claiming that the many horns represented the members of the EEC, ten at the time, therefore we were in the end times. Now it is 27 members, so that nonsense seems to have died out. I hope.

Thing about Revelation is that it is written in such a way that one can bend and shape it to mean anything. It reads more like a drug trip than anything else.