> It's been regularly altered for almost 2000 years without making it clear to the reader/viewer how and why. ... in an era where scientific rigor, proper edit

> It's been regularly altered for almost 2000 years without making it clear to the reader/viewer how and why. ... in an era where scientific rigor, proper editorial practices, literary science, and indeed the entire humanities in the modern sense didn't exist. That's a laughable comparison. If anyone tried to publish an "edited" Bible like that today, they would get publicly crucified by scholars.