Grettings and Blessings to all. Peace!
That the Bible is a dangerous book is demonstrated by the number of implacable enemies that throughout history have had, that have tried, and try, by all means to boycott and combat their message, even reaching the point of seeking their physical disappearance, something that at this point is impossible, because if it was not achieved when there was no printing or Internet much less is going to get now.
That is why all current attempts are focused not on their physical liquidation but on the suppression of their message. The first occasion, after the birth of Christianity, in which the Bible was tried to disappear was under the rule of Diocletian († 316), who on 23 February 303 published an edict depriving his civil rights of the freed Christians, the demolition of the churches was ordered and the delivery of the Bibles was sent to be burned. Needless to say, the edict did not achieve its goal, although there were Christian leaders who folded to the threats and delivered Bibles.
They were called traditores, that is, deliverers [of the Bible]. The word traditor is where the word traitor also comes from. When José Cardona, a prominent Spanish evangelical leader of the second half of the 20th century, had his office in the Tower of Madrid, the precinct presided over a picture that was very representative of the state of affairs that existed in certain countries during the Reformation. when the Catholic Church wanted to prevent at all costs that the Bible be disseminated and read. In the painting a father and his daughter appeared with an open Bible, but startled with their faces turned back and their eyes dilated, before some sudden threat that had been presented by what they were doing.
And it is that only the catholic hierarchy could have the Bible, translate it, read it, interpret it and preach it, being outside the law anyone that wanted to do the same. The revolutions that accompanied the rationalism that swept Europe in the eighteenth century carried the slogan of ending also the Bible, not so much physically, but on the plane of ideas, discrediting it as a source of obscurantism, ignorance and superstition.
Reason was the legitimate criterion of truth, not a supposed revelation. The satires of the encyclopaedists had as their target the Bible, which with its absurd legends and its invented hoaxes had captivated people in error; although it was soon to be amply demonstrated that the goddess reason produces its own monsters and monstrosities. Then came other revolutions, in which atheism pretended to be scientific, although in reality it did not go beyond being one more belief, only without foundation or rationality, attributing the existence of things to nothingness, to chance or to the things themselves .
The Bible was persecuted from the organs of power and all those who dared to preach its message would bear the consequences. Many Christians suffered in the 20th century in certain countries because of their loyalty to that book. And in many nations where a single belief has a religious, political and social monopoly, the Bible is a clandestine book, which can not be sold, published or taught, and anyone who pretends to share his message with others should be very careful. Before and now, here and there, for some and for others, the constant throughout history is that this book, which explains our origin, the cause of our problem and the solution to it, is harassed, ridiculed, hated and prohibited. And despite everything is still there.
But in western countries we are now witnessing an attack on the Bible as far as its anthropology is concerned. What began as, in the 19th century, the denial that the human being is a special creation of God, has led, in the 21st century, to the denial of the identity between gender and sex, together with the perversion of nature. of marriage. But all this, which could be no more than an opinion, pretends to pass for a legal and political imposition that all have to assume obligatorily.
In the school, in the church, in the home, in the street, in the media and even in the conscience, the new enemies of the Bible, which because they are enemies of freedom of expression, want to deprive us of the notion of man , of marriage, of family and of sexuality that this book teaches us, so that we believe in the crooked notion that on all those things they want to impose on us. And this is how we are witnessing in Spain the attempt promoted by the LGBT collective to convert their ideology into a totalitarian law. But the bastion of the Christian, today as yesterday, is impregnable and remains the same. That precious book that has prevailed in the face of the most furious attacks that it has had, will also now triumph.