I had a couple Christian missionaries ring my doorbell last week and I brought some of that up.

She was reading from the King James New Testament I think... I asked her who controlled the text between the time God wrote it and today. She didn't have an answer and seemed confused as to why I was asking.

I said that the message of the Bible has been controlled by the Church or the State since its inception, and both of those entities have an acute interest in guiding the will of the people, for good or for ill, depending on when and where. It's how society has always worked.

I asked if she could see how that message could have been altered over time in the interest of maintaining a complacent (I didn't say it, but also "ignorant") populace. Needless to say, it wasn't very effective.