[GarySpFc]

Even though the Church had settled on which texts to use, it had trouble making true copies of them. Almost nobody could read and write very well. Even village scribes could barely comprehend what they were writing.

Nonsense! What we have here is a lonely professor seeking attention for himself. While it is true many people could not write, there have always been many good scholars, and they worked diligently to carefully pass along the Bible as we know it today.

[dominic flandry]

"Even village scribes could barely comprehend what they were writing."

This is nonsense. In 367 Anno Domini the Roman Empire was still intact. Who does this guy think was reading all those inscriptions on buildings and tombstones?

I do not know what the rate of literacy was in the Roman Empire but I suspect it was much greater than in some Third World countries today. Those Third World countries have newspapers.

I agree with your point.