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I ain't a Christian! But the Bible is a collection of books and correspondence, with many many authors (usually they say who they are in the first few lines of the book/letter), not just one book. And of course everything past the Old Testament can be more than iffy because Christianity/Catholicism was a tool for social control put together by the imperial power of the time to ride the wave and not get overwhelmed by it. Anything Paul says sounds like a fed cosplaying a believer, lol, and besides the additions, who knows what exactly had been modified? It must be read with discernment, basically.
Ecclesiastes is one book, for instance, upon which one could rely entirely to believe in God and do good deeds... but the Qur'an is also one book, more comprehensive and, at least for many of us, the word of God itself!
I referred to christianity from your comment and bible because my knowledge about islam is way less than about christianity. I had read Quran but i was not impressed at all, though it was more consistent than bible at least. Though i seem to remember there was nearly 15 centuries of various people writing interpretations of it, of which some was even enforced.
Also we seem to shift the topic, the foundation of society is not any text or another, it's the mode of production. And the shifting of holy texts and religious canons excellently illustrates that they are not any rock but the cover (base and superstructure, remember), as you mentioned yourself with how the bible was used.