Did popes murder those who read the bible

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I’m blogging with a Friend who happens to be a Baptist Minister. He today told me that before the Protestant reformation the church murdered anyone who read a bible. Is this true? If not where did the story originate. thank you susan
 
Simple answer. NOPE!

Ps: ( Not excluding any strange possibilities. Maybe)
 
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I don’t think so either but I need to know where this falsehood began as evidence to refute the claim. thanks for quick response. smcl
 
It must have been severely difficult to get people to sign up to lector.
 
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I don’t think so either but I need to know where this falsehood began as evidence to refute the claim. thanks for quick response. smcl
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It may have come from the fate of bible translator John Wycliffe- who although he died of natural causes- was exhumed and tried post mortem at the behest of the reigning pope.
 
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I don’t think so either but I need to know where this falsehood began as evidence to refute the claim. thanks for quick response. smcl
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He’s the one making the claim. Ask for his sources. Documented, verifiable cases of such a thing happening.
 
Yes as Angel12 has said, the person who puts forth the assertion is responsible to show some evidence. Ask for some historical references. Otherwise, it is just anti-catholic drivel.

Let your friend demonstrate that he is not bearing false witness

Exodus 20:16 “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.”

Ask if Baptists accept this Bible verse. Baptists are taught a great deal of lies about the Catholic faith, but it is up to each person if they will continue to perpetuate the misinformation.
 
If you want to know “where did this story originate”, you would be best off asking your Baptist minister friend.

I suspect it originated in some other Baptist’s imagination.
 
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He today told me that before the Protestant reformation the church murdered anyone who read a bible.
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Well then he should be able to provide some proof of that bold claim.

No it’s not true, I don’t know why you even have to ask this.

Where did it originate? In his imagination. And probable reformation era propaganda.
 
Must have been hard to find anyone to " murder" for " reading" anything when the vast majority by far could neither read nor write.
 
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Very helpful. Thank u. I have found the source and the truth about the bible banning mistruth. It was in Catholucism and Fundamentalism.
 
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Lol, the banned bible versions which were heretical. One heretic was executed. This is what I know so far.
 
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I found the issue addressed in a K. Keating book. At one time when church was fighting grave heresy certain versions of bible were banned. This has been turned into a huge exaggeration as far as I can tell.
 
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I haven’t heard that name thanks I’ll look it up.
 
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As others have said, the onus is on him to back up his claims- ideally using reputable, secular historical sources.
 
for a long time, owning a bible in the vernacular was extremely taboo. is that what he was talking about?
 
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the banned bible versions which were heretical. One heretic was executed.
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Translations could be made of the Bible, so long as they were under the authority of the Church, and there were many already in progress or completed at the time of the Reformation. @ [(name removed by moderator)](https://forums.catholic-questions.org/u/(name removed by moderator)) made the point that Bibles before the printing press were extremely rare and time consuming to produce. Most of them were penned by monks using candlelight, and took years to write longhand. People that had copies usually had only parts. They were “locked” or chained to the lecturn precisely so that the whole congregation could benefit from them (even though the majority could not read or write.

The printing press was invented by a Catholic and the first book he printed was a bible.

What the Church sought to prevent, by monitoring the publication of the Scriptures is exactly what occurred - translations that change the original texts and interpreting the contents in such a manner that was inconsistent with the Teaching of the Apostles. The Sacred Traditions were never meant to be separated from the Sacred Scriptures. This is exactly what happened at the Reformation.
 
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