The scriptures were banned and destroyed from very early on by the dominate political cultural scientific and militarily civilisation at the time called the Roman Empire. It certainly enjoyed the decadence that it's power was able to bring for its society
In fact one of the emporeres Nero use to tie Christians to a stake cover then with tar and set them alight to illuminate his night time garden parties with screams and light
We also had atheistic modern day communist regimes ban the bible
History shows what type of societies and the calibre of humans that have banned the bible there is no reason to believe that in our modern world such humans do not exist and do not share the same values as those that preceded them.
