ShadowGallery
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The Council of Nicea is where I would say the bible became shit. Before that many gospels and books where floating around (i.e. gnostic.) Constantine was behind this little meeting where the main point was to figure out the whole idea of Jesus in relation to God(father) as written in the many books. They also hand picked what version of the bible was going to exist.
But I would also say that the biggest distortion of the bible was from "King James era" in the 1600's. Where under his rule the clergy made their own little version of the bible from greek and hebrew translations. That is what the majority of people use today.
The Koran is probably the least bastardized version of religious text, even though I do not agree with anything in it (nor the bible.)
Again, I chalk all this up to superstitious nonsense. It is no different than the mumbo jumbo vikings, greeks, romans, and sumerians believed back then. The only real difference is that all of those groups where crushed by christianity and islam making their beliefs "wrong."
Aye, the problem with Islam is more so in illiteracy problems with several nations who were under occupation until recently, by the Soviet Union or parts of Western Britain. Education is improving slowly in most of the middle east, but many groups like Al Qaeda took advantage of the illiteracy problems before it fixed itself (mostly in Afghanistan, but did spread to a few small regions of neighboring countries). Luckily, most nations in the Middle East are improving education, etc, quickly, and secularism is either being used or not far from it many countries around the area; Tunisia, Turkey, Algeria (which is what caused "Al Qaeda in the Maghrib" to attack Algerian civilians until they were eventually subdued), Egypt, Indonesia, etc. It's just a matter of time until groups like Al Qaeda, etc, are completely exiled from all regions of the Middle East, as the small amount of support for extremist groups like these die down.
Anyways, as prophesized by South Park, there will always be conflict for one reason or another, at least religion now is better than it used to be IMO (Human Sacrifices to appease war Gods in Central/Southern America, etc)