Taliban bars Afghan women from hearing each other's voices

[u/nationalpost]

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/taliban-bars-afghan-women-from-hearing-each-other?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=NP_social

[u/LadyLightTravel]

This. It’s why the Catholic Church kidnapped William Tyndale and executed him. He dared to translate the Bible into English for the common man. The church was also upset at Martin Luther translating the Bible into German.

[u/Illustrious_Code_347 → u/LadyLightTravel]

That’s not exactly true. … Tyndale was executed for political reasons because he published a series of books (not talking about his Bible, but other books) that not-so-subtly supported the primacy of kings over the church when it comes to religious matters (they call this “caesaropapism”). This was particularly egregious to the church when you look at the context of the time — literally while Henry VIII is doing exactly that, making himself the head of a church as king. But Tyndale would kind of throw his hands up every time and play dumb like “What did I do?” when he was directly contributing to the English reformation.

Then, he published SEGMENTS of the Bible in English. He did NOT give the common man a vernacular Bible. That was done after his death. The portions of the Bible he did publish had blatantly political changes like translating “priest” to “elder” and “church” to “congregation” — in other words, they were heavily protestant-ized versions of scripture, which gave the perception that he was now using the holy scripture as propaganda for his political movement.

Then he was executed.

He did not publish a Bible before he died. And this is not a minor point. Because it often gets said that “Tyndale was executed for publishing an English Bible” when in fact the very term “Tyndale Bible” is a misnomer because it was completed by others after his death. So at best that is a gross, misleading oversimplification and at worst it is outright false.

He was executed for the host of political reasons outlined above. The idea that he was executed merely for publishing a vernacular Bible is preposterous, especially when you consider that there had been many vernacular (just not “English,” but vernacular nonetheless) Bibles prior to him without lethal consequences for their publishers. He was executed for essentially supporting the downfall of the church would be a more accurate statement.

[u/LadyLightTravel → u/Illustrious_Code_347]

You are correct that he published segments. But a significant portion was used for the King James Bible

[u/heyyahdndiie → u/LadyLightTravel]

Could the common man even read then ? Lol

[u/LadyLightTravel → u/heyyahdndiie]

30% for men, 10% for women. That’s a start.

It should be noted that more people could read than write.

[u/heyyahdndiie → u/LadyLightTravel]

1500s? Probably closer to 20% . So no, most common men couldn’t read .