A Simple Question...or 3!

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I, nor the RCC ever considered the Word of God to be (sola scriptura) owned by us!

You should brush-up on your RCC facts, as not to confuse our anti friends!

You don't know much about catholicism do you!

The history of the church you adhere to is one of persecution, intolerance and repression in order to own not only scripture but truth itself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharism#T...ersecution

From May 1243 to March 1244, the Cathar fortress of Montségur was besieged by the troops of the seneschal of Carcassonne and the archbishop of Narbonne. On 16 March 1244, a large and symbolically important massacre took place, where over 200 Cathar Perfects were burnt in an enormous fire at the prat dels cremats near the foot of the castle. Moreover, the Church decreed lesser chastisements against laymen suspected of sympathy with Cathars, at the 1235 Council of Narbonne.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei

Galileo was found "vehemently suspect of heresy", namely of having held the opinions that the Sun lies motionless at the centre of the universe, that the Earth is not at its centre and moves, and that one may hold and defend an opinion as probable after it has been declared contrary to Holy Scripture. He was required to "abjure, curse and detest" those opinions.[59]
He was sentenced to formal imprisonment at the pleasure of the Inquisition.[60] On the following day this was commuted to house arrest, which he remained under for the rest of his life.
His offending Dialogue was banned; and in an action not announced at the trial, publication of any of his works was forbidden, including any he might write in the future.[61]

These are just two examples I could go on and on going back to when the church was in its infancy and oppressed the competing styles of christianities that never made the final cut.

The gnostics, the marcionites, the carpocrations, the ebionites etc
No reading of scripture was allowed except that of the catholics. All opposing views they went out of there way to destroy. It is only fairly recently that discoveries have been made that reveal the turbulance of the early christian church that neccessitated the council of nicea.