Other Bibles were fine specifically because the uneducated people could not understand the language in which they were written.
The translation of scripture is an active issue even to this day. Rome has not exactly established itself today in using scripture that is a strict translation. For example..The King James is not a strict translation. This would by definition of your previous justifications, make Rome today guilty of heresy.
It seems to take less mental gymnastics to simply admit that men utilized the fear of eternal judgment in the political arena and this cost those in the way of that their lives.
You wrote:
“Other Bibles were fine specifically because the uneducated people could not understand the language in which they were written.”
Bibles in the vernacular were also fine. The time church authorities ever worried was if those Bibles were produced by heretics - like the Albigensians or Lollards - or if they were misused. How is that any different than today? Would you give your child a New World Translation? That’s the Bible the Jehovah’s Witnesses use. It denies Christ’s divinity. Would you give it your child?
“The translation of scripture is an active issue even to this day. Rome has not exactly established itself today in using scripture that is a strict translation.”
What? The 1998 Vulgate is a very strict translation. You have no idea of what you’re talking about.
“For example..The King James is not a strict translation.”
The KJV is a Protestant translation. I have no idea why you are talking about it here when talking about the Catholic Church and her own translations.
“This would by definition of your previous justifications, make Rome today guilty of heresy.”
How could a Protestant Bible in any way, shape or form make the Catholic Church “guilty of heresy”? That makes no sense at all. That’s like saying the crimes of the KGB (KJV) some how make the the CIA guilty of crimes too.
“It seems to take less mental gymnastics to simply admit that men utilized the fear of eternal judgment in the political arena and this cost those in the way of that their lives.”
It seems easiest to me to simply tell the truth - and that’s what I’ve done. No gymnastics is required by the truth.