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The GGG list covers a lot of history, archaeology, paleontology, and other related topics. Among those topics are some (including a few recent ones) pertaining to Old Testament-era archaeology. That isn’t however what the GGG list is primarily about.

In a general sort of way attacks on Scripture grew out of the Reformation, and before that the various heresies (Albigensian, Arian, etc), and before *that* out of various drifts of pre-Christian pagan cults. Astrological references in the New Testament (such as the Star of the East in the Book of Matthew) are IMHO examples of pagan influence.

However, the push for the Bible to be shredded by some has more its immediate roots in the political need to undermine the Divine Right of Kings, even though (for example) the English Civil War was fought and won by the Puritans. They of course wound up making Oliver Cromwell their Protector — the first modern dictator, as has been said — tried to pass on the job to his son (back to hereditary monarchy), and finally invited Charles II to return to rule as king, with some limits. Charles demanded a large sum of money up front, and had Cromwell’s body dug up and given the punishments for regicides and traitors.

A second attempt (by James II, Charles II’s brother; the first was by “Bloody” Mary I) to reintroduce Roman Catholicism to Britain resulted in Parliament’s tipping him off the throne in favor of William (III, of Orange) and Mary (II, James’ and Charles’ sister); the “Glorious Revolution” followed, in which “King Billy and the whole house of Orange” (in the phrase penned I guess by the late Stan Rogers, the Canadian folksinger).

All that said, all wars are fought for political reasons, and politics is always and only about power. And there’s nothing wrong with power, or its pursuit, but it must be granted by the governed, and very carefully granted, and have limits, including term limits.