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Why do you think the churches wanted to forbid people to read certain books?

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Churches at the time derived their power from having a monopoly on knowledge; if people could read, they could question the churches' authority and the church would loose its position.

Especially some books were challenging to the church; those were the books that the church would specifically forbid.
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