WOuld you favor sanitizing the Bible?
Been done. Thomas Jefferson produced a highly edited version of the Bible that he felt better suited his needs. Basically took out all of the miracles. Here's the text:
http://www.sullivan-county.com/news/deist1999/jeff_bible.htm
It's been done; the Bible has been "Bowdlerized" (a useful word to look up), along with Shakespeare. Both are long since out of copyright, if in fact they had ever been under it. Intellectual property rights were a concept first introduced in the 19th century, iirc.