Perhaps you're right, at least to a large degree, since most people I know who are into the people seem quite ignorant.  On the other hand there are tales of "holy men" and "healings" and "angels" and the like for periods spanning thousands of years, and it's been used in holy practices for equally long.  Also, as Jung showed, the Bible is sort of a repository/psychological metaphor for the development and maturation of the Western Psyche, from the Old Testament God days to the God of Love.  To use Rupert Sheldrake's idea of Morphic Resonance, the Bible seems to have worn a deep runnel into our collective psyche, and when I say that it (to me) is a book of great power and light, I mean this on a personal and collective/archetypal level.  That's why people keep being drawn back to it.  Hope this isn't rambling I'm in a rush, cheers.