/lit/ - Literature

>>22583168
translators of the bible were literally hunted down and tortured to death, made-up accusations of "jenny turned me into a frog" were persisting even in revolutionary america until militiamen physically burst into the churches and gunned down the perpetrators of the witch trials.

>an englithenment myth
no, it was entirely real.

Why do you think the actions of the church inspired such fervor against it...? Everyone was under this threat so it had to be taken seriously; we couldn't "ignore" it was if were some academic issue for us to laugh about as gentlemen over a coffee table. The narrative that it was "just for fun" is insane.

It's like pretending that Pol Pots communism was something nobody had any reason to oppose, or any demented procrustean dogma being inflicted by fucked-up administrators. Liberal politics and its class of absurdist-ideologue clerics today is the same thing; if you can't understand how and why and who, you'll never be able to save yourself from it.

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>>21841408
Since it's King James' version you ought read upon King James and what was happening in those days, he might have made it all up for all you know.

>>21733637
>People far smarter than you have found meaning in it for thousands of years. They're well aware of the criticisms you make regarding its history
That's not true at all, the early christians didn't know of this book - rejecting most of the content and rules of it - and in western and central europe, for most of history, it was forbidden to own a copy of it in ones own native language; meaning that they did not know anything about it, when it was translated many people realized that the church was a corrupt entity and the enlightenment happened.

So no; people didn't find meaning in it for thousands of years nor were aware of any criticisms of it. The moment they were they agreed with the criticisms.

And from a Jesus orientated perspective the translations still are wrong; i.e. there's no church building or priest advocated by paul or jesus, no idolatry of a book, no emulation of the old testament characters, etc.

according to Catholicism it was heresy punishable by death to own a copy of the Bible in anything other than Latin, and an even greater heresy to read from it, be it in Latin or not.

William Tyndale was burned at the stake by the Dutch Catholics in Brabant for having painstakingly produced the first english language bible, of which 80% of the content was borrowed for all subsequent editions of the Bible. Tyndale ha already been forced to flee for his life from Catholics Thomas More and Cardinal Wolsey who petitioned King Henry VIII that William Tyndale should be castrated and then hanged, drawn and quartered.

As he was set upon the pyre by the Dutch his last words were that God would open his Kings eyes and reveal to Henry the truth.

The SJWs of that day, eventually crushed forevermore by Henry VIII, had it so that it was forbidden to even read from the Bible, preferring to burn the Bible rather than allow anybody to read what it contained.

Catholicism.