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Your vision is that billions are or have been controlled by the Bible...and you are that very rare exception. Personally, I've never met anyone controlled by the Bible or any other holy book.
Yes, a lot of people have been controlled by the Bible. Some people just accept the Bible, accept it as a power base and work around it, like the Sicilian mafia, went to church, did Catholic things, but then went and ignored it for the rest of the week.
So you don't know anyone who believes in heaven and hell? You don't know anyone who says "I'm going to this because I might go to heaven, if I do the other thing, I'll go to hell"?
Well, in the past people accepted God, they accepted heaven and hell. I could find thousands of examples. I could show stories or Christian martyrs and the like. It's not hard.
Then again in the modern world, with modern churches, people use religion to try and justify their prejudices. Like those who are against gay people. "Look, the Bible says..." and you could point at a million things the Bible says that they just ignore.