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One reason the KJV came about was due to "differences" between the English crown and the pope.

Within the preface of the 1611 King James version, where its translators bade their offering of the finished product to "...your most Sacred Majesty...", we find:

"...we hold it our duty to offer it to Your Majesty, not only as to our King and Sovereign, but as to the principal mover and author of the Work; humbly craving of your most Sacred Majesty, that, since things of this quality have ever been subject to the censures of ill-meaning and discontented persons, it may receive approbation and patronage from so learned and judicious a Prince as Your Highness is; whose allowance and acceptance of our labours shall more honour and encourage us than all the calumniations and hard interpretations of other men shall dismay us. So that if, on the one side, we shall be traduced by Popish persons at home or abroad, who therefore will malign us, because we are poor instruments to make God's hold truth to be yet more and more known unto the people, whom they desire still to keep in ignorance and darkness; or if, on the other side, we shall be maligned by self-conceited brethren, who run their own ways, and give liking unto nothing but what is framed by themselves, and hammered on their anvil, we may rest secure, supported within by the truth and innocency of a good conscience, having walked the ways of simplicity and integrity as before the Lord, and sustained without by the powerful protection of Your Majesty's grace and favour, which will ever give countenance to honest and Christian endeavors against bitter censures and uncharitable imputations.

As the preface mentions... Britain believed that Catholicism was too dark and mysterious to bear... that it kept the True knowledge of God from the people; "...whom they desire to keep in ignorance and darkness...".

The Church of England, itself, was established in defiance of the pope's "dark" authority. So, it needed an English Bible to bring to "Light" for all people the "Truth" of God.

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