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: .
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: .
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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.
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.
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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