Do you know why some of those condemned to death as Witches and heretics were Librarians?

Question

The original meaning of the word was three fold; a scribe, a bookseller, and a keeper and recorder of information.

Cite: Oxford English Dictionary.

Answer 1

makes sense, stocking the shelves of a public center for knowledge with anything that conflicts with church doctrine or points to logic and science was at one time deemed heresy and worthy of death

that's where Gonzales and Bush cronies want us to return to, Inquition age life and fear

Answer 2

Not only librarians, but midwives as well. Couldn't have heretical witches giving aid and comfort to women in childbirth when everyone knew all women must suffer through the agonies of childbirth as God's revenge for Eve's original sin. The patriarchal European medical profession arose from the vacuum created after the Church eliminated the only source of medical care in most of Europe. Besides childbirth, midwives set broken bones and sutured serious wounds. Imagine the human suffering, after the Church declared that midwives were witches and burned most of them, because they supposedly thwarted God's will by giving comfort to women in childbirth. A perfect example of how blind adherence to superstitious doctrine fails to address the real needs of human civilization.

Answer 3

Access to independent knowledge is a threat to religion and must be destroyed. Look at attempts now in America to stifle evolutionary facts for example (in schools, Grand Canyon).

Answer 4

The churches have never wanted people to have acess to the truth because their very foundations would crumble.....
SADLY
Not much has changed.
Blessings
~*Ariel*~

Answer 5

No, is that why Oswald shot Kennedy from a book storage building?

Answer 6

Because they could read, at a time when most could not, would be my best guess.

Answer 7

women with access to knowledge
we cant have that !