You have your Bible in English today because - on this day, October 6, in 1536, William Tyndale was burned at the stake for disobeying the authorities.
It was deemed a danger to society for individuals to read the Bible themselves. If an individual wanted to learn more about the Bible, they needed to join a congregation, have it read to them by an ordained priest, and in the Latin language.
William Tyndale was considered selfish and dangerous for putting the individual over the group.

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@sinbach “William Tyndale was considered selfish and dangerous for putting the individual over the group” sounds like a justification for a bad behavior instead of an accurate description of causality. Shrug.

@Elecnurs3 translating the Bible into another language and distributing it without authorization was bad behavior and yes, I justified it.
Shrug.

@sinbach lol. I was saying that the church saying they were putting the group over the individual was a petty justification for killing Tyndall and not the real reason he was killed. He was killed for disrupting the church monopoly on truth in my opinion. I’m probably wrong…

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