"but the Jesuit argument pertains to the intelligent subjugating the ignorant (enlightened vs. the gullible) via the ever changable biblical "word" transcribed by man and selectively repeated by men.

Sure, we've all seen it done. But it doesn't blanket the entire world of Scriptural interpretation and scholarship.

Just because I can't make my way through a Calculus textbook does not diminish the textbook, nor the scholarship that went into it's printing.

One could take the calculus book and taking advantage of my inability to understand higher math, mislead me using the textbook -- but that wouldn't lead one to conclude that that is or was the MAIN function of the calculus textbook.

Yet, people love to have their great hate of religion reconfirmed by the extrapolation that, because some have misinterpreted and misused Scripture, then all do.

"Perhaps we should look to the Egyptians or the Zep Tepi for mention of dinosaur lore since scholars like Joseph Campbell have shown us that the Torah and Bible are at their very foundations variations on a theme of the Pharoic Egyptian religion."

I've heard this kind of thing all the time. You are completely confident that Campbell is not guilty of the kind of scholarship that you are positive that the other religious scholars do.