a) the Bible WAS read, in a back room, by some of her uncles. They treated it as "something to hide, not to show the young ones that you could read it".
More: it was "on the index" which was a listof books and scriptures explicitly marked as "bad for any good christian"
In the catholic schools here, there WAS an -annotated- version, containing the New testament. And it was sometimes used "in class".
Of course, all of this is hearsay, but I do trust this came from someone who witnessed it.
Apparently it was "bad" to read it yourself. And worse to read Luthers version, of course. Or the dutch Statenbijbel: a protestant book!
I ignore what "public schools" did over here. Non-catholic schols were often a-religious or anti-religious in Belgium. That has changed too, to some extent. |
