Apart from the stray comment on Tyndale, the conversation with Tulsi Gabbard is pretty intelligent.
Why The Left Fears Religious People - Tulsi Gabbard
Chris Williamson | 4 Sept. 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msCFOAdaU2U
7:10 completely decentralised?
No. Secularised. The guy who had the Bible after that was not the poor peasant, it was the rich peasant and any other employer, and the Bible in English or in Swedish or most other Protestant countries would mean, the employees had to go, most of the week, to the employer for interpretation, and on Lord's Day, when they had access to clergy, as they had, in many places, whereever there was Puritanism, the clergyman, in Presbyterian terms the "Teaching Elder" or "Minister" depended on a board of "Ruling Elders" who were typically the most important employers among the employers who were in that Church.
As you said that Tyndale was persecuted for translating the Bible, the Holy Roman Empire gave him pretty good leeway for that, as it was not forbidden there by any means. He had problems in Cologne because he was a heretic, and so he went to Antwerp, where he was apprehended, finally, for heresy, and tried on his theory of justification.
As you said "decentralised" ... Tyndale wasn't even Presbyterian, much less Congregationalist. He believed in Caesaro-Papism. Citing wiki:
A copy of Tyndale's The Obedience of a Christian Man (1528), which some view as arguing for Caesaropapism (the idea that the monarch rather than the Pope should control a country's Church), came into the hands of King Henry VIII, providing a rationale for breaking the Church in England away from the Catholic Church in 1534.
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