The idea that the laity shouldn’t have bibles is crap.
“The idea that the laity shouldn’t have bibles is crap.”
It is, and this is an excellent example of the church’s need for control.The church was extremely theologically, and ergo secularly, threatened by the Templars.
I agree. Yet it had been the policy of the RCC to discourage personal possession of Bibles and it had been and is policy to discourage possession of translations of the Bible that do not concur with Doctrine.