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Forgot one of the most important parts of the history of the bible. When it was first transcribed for the common person, the church felt that it was too difficult for the common person to understand. Thus they created the first mass-market version of the bible, known as the vulgate (same root as the word vulgar, for the common person) upon which most subsequesnt translations are based. This is one of the reasons why some religious difference never fail to amuse me (such as the Jehova's Witnesses insisting that Jesus was killed on a stake and not on a cross).
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