The Greeks believed in reason. The Jews believe in One G-d. Neither denies the need to ask questions, and have independent thoughts. It's not that the books are bad; people have just stopped thinking. People don't like Christianity for the same reason they don't like vigorous exercise--if you do it right it's really tough!

I don't see many lately using Christianity to subjugate people. The tyrants today have found new ideological toys to play with: globalism, socialism...