Johannes Gutenberg is tinkering in his shop when St. Peter walks in.
"Behold! My newest invention! The printing press!" He proclaims.
"What does it do?" St. Peter asks.
"It makes books easier to print! It only takes a single person to operate."
"Have you no sense of compassion, Gutenberg? Think of all the poor scribes you'll put out of work!"
"Nonsense, Pete. They'll have more time for studying instead of mindless scribbles."
"That's all fine, Gutenberg," says St. Peter, "but that machine must be difficult to make. Would you really take the world's brightest minds away from serving their brothers and sisters?"
"Peter, you worry too much." Gutenberg says. "This printing press will make it easier for them to spread their knowledge, not harder."
St. Peter continues to protest. "Gutenberg, surely when anyone is able to print a book, literature will be reduced to common garbage."
"Calm down, Peter," says Gutenberg. "Without scribes as gatekeepers to knowledge, anyone will be free to decide what they would prefer to read. Printing will bring freedom, creation, and knowledge to the whole world!"
"That is one powerful machine," says St. Peter. "How do you think the Church will respond?"
"You are right," says Gutenberg. "Better hand me the Bible."
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