A comment concerning Christianity and PhotoReading. Remember there was a time when the average Joe was not allowed to read the Bible. Literacy was the domain of the clerics. Priests (and I assume monks and nuns) were the only ones who had access to the Gospels.
The issue of average Joe reading the Bible for himself was one of the primary wedges that split the Protestants away from the Catholic church.(The advent of printing was a big help here :-). Literacy itself certainly had an impact on the way that people thought and I suppose you could say that literacy is also a devil's tool. For that matter, so is speech. If the serpent hadn't spoken into Eve's ear we might all be in Eden today (althought I suspect mankind would have done something else to get it bounced out into the woeful world
