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Created page with "{{bl| Control of scripture }} Initially, the first priests controlled access to the relatively rare copies of the scripture. When the Gutenberg press made copies available to all, they discouraged reading it by the myth that only trained experts, the priests, could properly read it. They narrowed it further by saying only a committee of priests could interpret it, and that papal declarations were infallible no matter how senseless they were. The Reformers said that..."
