Why did the Popes burn the Bible & preachers of the Bible in the middle ages?

Question

Lollards were burnt at the stake with Bibles around their necks in Britain & Germany.

Wycliffe's preachers & Bibles were rounded up and burnt at the stake by the droves.

John Huss and his preachers & Bibles were also Burnt at the stake in Bulgaria (Ancient Northern Greece)

Wycliffe's bones were exhumed from the grave and burnt!

All historical facts.

Do you all just mock people and show your ignorance or do you actually read unabridged histories?

Answer 1

Ridiculous question.

If you meant why did the Catholic Church keep the Bible out of the hands of its followers, and reserve that gift only for its priests, the answer is to keep the Bible out of the hands of people like you, who would distort and twist it for their own benefit.

Answer 2

Bibles that were not verified as completely accurate according to the earliest copies available were burned as a precautionary measure, in case they contained heresy. It was a prudent measure, considering how easily some people are swayed.

Answer 3

he didn't. what evidence do you have or is this another anti catholic question with no grounds in history or truth?

the times of wycliff and the others are very different than today,the mnind set of back then was very different. protestants and catholics were at eachothers throats and horrific things happened on both sides. these things only show that the church is made up of sinners with failings, it in no way reflects on the church as a whole or as estalished by christ. the churchs teachings deal only in truth,the followers are far from perfect at times but the church is.

Answer 4

Popes are humans, humans have both a good/bad side... Even Jesus was human... Popes are prone to wanting power and money and fame jsut as much as everyone else... to think otherwise one would have to have ver strong faith... that would override logic...

Answer 5

the Roman Catholics do NOT want people to read the Bible , else they would become x-roman catholics

Answer 6

Your questions here are too judgemental. Why don't you check the history section.

Answer 7

and pray tell what did the protestants do to the Catholic and to each other

The Protestants stripped the Christian philosophy of all of the colorful Catholic trappings, bringing us the sanitized, cinder-block Baptist church of today, more prudish, still scorning intellect and learning
Exodus 22:18: Thou shall not suffer a witch to live.
...Luther believed that witches should be burned even if they harmed no one, since they made pacts with the devil. He was personally responsible for at least four witch burnings in Wittenburg.
Calvin ... himself said on one occasion:
"The Bible teaches us that there are witches and they must be slain ... this law of God is a universal law."
Another prominent Protestant, John Wesley (1703-1791), the founder of the Methodist Church, wrote that anyone who denied the reality of witchcraft was:
in direct opposition not only to the Bible, but to the suffrage of the wisest and best of men in all ages and nations ... Thus giving up of witchcraft is in effect giving up the Bible.
Persecutions by Roman Catholics led to retaliations by Protestants culminating in Europe's second bloodthirsty Thirty Year War (1618-48). As terrible as the Catholics were to the Protestants, the Protestants were equally intolerant and did not miss the chance to return the favour. Catholics and Protestants persecuted, fought and killed each other in the millions. Next to this, persecution of the tiny remnant of non-Catholic and non-Protestant heretics and those accused or suspected of witchcraft continued. This time they were persecuted not only by Catholicism but also by Protestantism.
The result of all this was a victory for no one, and an estimated drop of Germany's population from 18 million to 4 million. With too few people left to work the field and trade for goods, starvation and disease ravaged the miserable survivors. Such are the fruits of European ChristianityHunger and deprivation followed the Thirty Year War, according to James A. Haught in Holy Horrors: An Illustrated History of Religious Murder and Madness:
"Too few people remained to plant fields, rebuild cities, or conduct education or commerce. The disaster helped break the historic entwinement of Christianity and politics. The concluding Peace of Westphalia prescribed an end to the pope's control over civil governments
Protestantism wasn't part of the Holy - and wholly Roman Catholic - Inquisition, Protestants did not shy away from using the same instruments and means of torture to suppress dissidents and their enemies. Luther, for instance, was well-known for demanding and endorsing the use of the rack and other tortures to punish prostitutes and even farmers who understandably opposed the German Princes. Martin Luther's vituperative work on rebellion, Against the Robbing and Murdering Peasants, gave religious sanction to curtailing the uprising of the peasant and farmer class, leading to the deaths of around a 100,000 people and making Germany more autocratic than before.
The principle which the Reformation had upheld in the youth of its rebellion - the right of private judgment - was as completely rejected by the Protestant leaders as by the Catholics . . . Toleration was now definitely less after the Reformation than before it.
It is well-known that belief in the justice of punishing heresy with death was so common among the 16th-century Reformers-Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, and their adherents - that we may say their toleration began where their power ended
In Switzerland, John Calvin created a vicious theocracy in which morality police were employed to control people's behavior. Citizens were harshly punished for a wide variety of moral infractions, including dancing, drinking, and generally being entertained. Theological dissidents were summarily executed, like Michael Servetus who was burned for doubting the Trinity. It isn't surprising that some of the nastiest Christians in America today, like Christian Reconstructionists, are unabashed Calvinists During the many Huguenot wars ravaging France, Huguenot soldiers hunted priests like animals and one captain is reported to have worn a necklace of priests' ears. In England, after King Henry VIII created the Anglican Church, he went after both Catholics and Protestants. Catholic loyalists like Sir Thomas More were quickly executed, but Lutherans who doubted retained doctrines like transubstantiation were also not spared. When his daughter Mary reached the throne in 1553 she became known as "Bloody Mary" because she attempted to reinstitute Catholicism through violence - but she only managed to make the country even more Protestant.
Unsurprisingly, not all Protestants were created equal - some wretched groups were uniformly hated by all parties. One example of this is the Anabaptists, who were martyred for their faith in huge numbers. Anabaptists briefly took the German city of Munster, but Catholic armies regained control, torturing to death Anabaptist leaders with red-hot pincers. Their bodies were hung in cages from a church steeple where they remained for many years as a visible reminder of what happens to those who dare to oppose church authority
Different Protestant sects also persecuted each other. The Anabaptists were, as stated, universally hated:
Zwingli... and his followers threw the poor Anabaptists into the Lake of Zurich, enclosed in sacks
At a religious convention at Hamburg in April, 1535 the Lutheran towns of Lubeck, Bremen, Hamburg, Luneburg, Stralsund, Rostock and Wismar all voted to hang Anabaptists and flog Catholics and Zwinglians before banishing them. Luther's home territory of Saxony had instituted banishment for Catholics in 1527.
"That seditious articles of doctrine should be punished by the sword needed no further proof. For the rest, the Anabaptists hold tenets relating to infant baptism, original sin, and inspiration, which have no connection with the Word of God, and are indeed opposed to it . . . Secular authorities are also bound to restrain and punish avowedly false doctrine . . . For think what disaster would ensue if children were not baptized? . . . Besides this the Anabaptists separate themselves from the churches . . . and they set up a ministry and congregation of their own, which is also contrary to the command of God. From all this it becomes clear that the secular authorities are bound . . . to inflict corporal punishment on the offenders . . . Also when it is a case of only upholding some spiritual tenet, such as infant baptism, original sin, and unnecessary separation, then . . . we conclude that . . . the stubborn sectaries must be put to death."
-- Martin Luther

Melanchthon accepted the chairmanship of the secular inquisition that suppressed the Anabaptists in Germany with imprisonment or death. 'Why should we pity such men more than God does?' he asked, for he was convinced that God had destined all Anabaptists to hell."
it goes on and on and on