RE: How many Christians actually ever even read the Bible?
December 4, 2011 at 9:40 pm
(This post was last modified: December 4, 2011 at 10:10 pm by Rokcet Scientist.)
(December 2, 2011 at 6:29 pm)5thHorseman Wrote: I think Tack, Frodo and our other Christians here do know their book very well indeed, but the vast majority of Christians know very little, and i actually find this a little sad.
The realisation that they really knew nothing about the bible directly, or indirectly from its interpreters, the clergy, because it was written, read, and quoted in Latin, which the common folk did not understand, was a driving force behind the translations into German, French, English, Dutch, etc., in the middle and late 16th century, and, combined with the printing press, a powerful factor in 'the schism', the Reformation. Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, and friends. Followed shortly even by Humanism (Erasmus)!
It was a revolution of knowledge and technology, hand-in-hand. The Enlightenment!
That episode, of losing control of the media, cost the almighty roman catholic church hundreds of millions of followers!
Another lesson that can be drawn is that less control of the media by 'special interests' increases individual intellectual freedom.
And vice versa strangles it.
