Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_)
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There was a time when only the church has control over who got access to books and what books were allowed, it was called the dark ages.

REPRESENTATIVE Higgins saying what we all thought the plan was out loud with the attack on public libraries - they want to replace them all with church libraries.

Theocrats get the :gulag: .

      • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        People forget that besides Luthor lots and lots of other proto-protestants had lots of valid reasons for hating the church and one of them was how they treated any and all external Christian sects. Also this is going to be American evangelical fascist libraries as well, so a hundred times worse in managing control over what is and isn't displayed to the public.

      • Dolores [love/loves]
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        1 year ago

        they didn't burn Wycliffe at the stake. i am mistaken about his bible in that they did order it burned---they're just still around so i did extrapolate from that.

        ill delete it because Wycliffe is a bad example but i was more commenting about relative impact of printed & non-printed books, and how much more important censorship was during the reformation.

          • Dolores [love/loves]
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            1 year ago

            i obv didn't explain it well but the biggest difference is reactionary vs. proactive censor, "publish anything you like but we'll come after you if it makes a stir" vs. the modern pre-approval that people think when they hear 'censorship'

            which is mostly a function of state capacity anyway. the catholic church would've liked to stop everyone writing before the pope looked at it but parrallel state-creation was a hard and long process.

            just don't want people thinking the catholic church was medieval 1984, not in any way a good institution

    • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Also they were super pumped for you to read the Bible, they just didn’t want you to go off doing it on your own with whatever translation someone came up with. They wanted you doing it in Latin, which they were happy to teach you or your kids, with guidance and context so you didn’t go “Oh wow god created the world in 7 days? That must mean 7 literal actual days!”