Islam, a growing threat to the free world?

[Existentialist]

A literal interpretation of the Bible was fed to people for hundreds of years because, you have to remember, only a few copies of the Bible even existed. Preachers and leaders could spin it anyway they liked, and the people would accept it because they had no access to it themselves.

So was it literal, or was it spin? It had to be one or the other, surely?

In an age where anyone who pleases can have access to the Bible, and it's teachings, we would expect that deeper thinkers would come out of the wood-work and correct the interpretations of old. Obviously, that is what happened. People who understood God*, but had no access to the Bible in olden times, began to say 'Hey, wait a minute.'

*I re-iterate; God is not contained within the Bible. The Bible is a book about God, written by men. Once the Bible got into the hands of the common man, who thought about things and came to understand God quite well, it's words were more clearly and accurately spread throughout the world.

So the Bible had to be democratised before its meaning would become clear? Popularised. Mass-produced.

That's a bit unjust isn't it? I mean, God must have known that it was going to be a couple of millenia before his love would get out into the open, because until then it was always going to be held back by the privileged elites. Or did he type in the wrong date on his coming-to-earth machine? He was probably too busy looking for the right spelling of Bethlehem in the A to Z

Seriously this whole timing business is freaking me out now. So not only did he leave out millions of people who were oppressed by the privileged literates, he also missed out the 300,000 years of pre-Christian homo sapiens sapiens who could have done with something to live for. Never mind homo sapiens but they're dumb anyway and wouldn't need a saviour. Really Christ's timing does seem a bit arbitrary.